On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 08:35:29PM +0200, Michael Hufer wrote: > Hi, > I recently bought a new computer system based on Shuttles XPC FN42G2 barebone > its motherboard uses the it8705 chip. Unfortunatly, I had to find out that > the current it87 driver resets the chip on init which switches the CPU/case > fan to a very noisy full speed. So, after some grumpling :-) I decided to > take things in my own hands and add some new features to the driver. > > First, I added a new mod parameter "reset_it87" which controls whether or not > the chip is reset on module load (modprobe it87 reset_it=1, default) or > not(modprobe it87 reset_it87=0). > Since this worked out quiet nicely I decided to go one step further and also > add the chips manual and automatic temperature controlled fan speed features > (PWM etc.). > > Finally I also updated the doc to document the new features. > > Attached is a diff against the current cvs version. Care to make a patch against the latest 2.6 kernel too? thanks, greg k-h
