On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 6:52 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 02:59:47AM -0600, Felipe Contreras wrote: >> Simple driver to enable control of the fan in ASUS laptops. So far this >> has only been tested in ASUS Zenbook Prime UX31A, but according to some >> online reference [1], it should work in other models as well. >> >> The implementation is very straight-forward, the only caveat is that the >> fan speed needs to be saved after it has been manually changed because >> it won't be reported properly until it goes back to 'auto' mode. >> >> [1] http://forum.notebookreview.com/asus/705656-fan-control-asus-prime-ux31-ux31a-ux32a-ux32vd.html >> >> Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> >> Two incarnations of this code exists [1][2], one that used ACPI methods >> directly, and one through WMI. Unfortunately the WMI version needs us to pass >> physicall addresses which is not exactly clean, and that's the only reason the >> code is proposed for staging. >> >> Most likely this cannot graduate until acpica gets support to receive virtual >> addresses. > > When is that going to happen? I don't know. Presumably when I get it done, which might be never, or a few days from now. Most likely it will take some time. >> [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.power-management.general/36774 >> [2] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1576463 >> >> drivers/staging/Kconfig | 2 + >> drivers/staging/Makefile | 1 + >> drivers/staging/asus-thermal/Kconfig | 7 ++ >> drivers/staging/asus-thermal/asus_thermal.c | 166 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > I need a TODO file for a staging driver listing who is responsible for > it, and what is needed to be done to it in order to get it out of > staging. Done. -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
