I'll look at it. Jean Delvare wrote: > Hi all, > > Regarding ticket #1722: > > The w83627hf driver (both in 2.4/CVS and 2.6) has a really agressive init > process. This isn't the first time we have a problem report related to > this, typically fans going to full speed on driver load (this is the > case in this ticket). > > It would be great if someone who can test the driver (I cannot) would > take a look and rework this part of the driver. > > As a reminder, our policy for drivers is that the init process should NOT > reset the chip by default, and should do as little as necessary to make > the chip work. The BIOS is supposed to have done the configuration work > properly. Allowing more initialization to be forced with init > 1 or > initialization to be completely skipped with init = 0 is a good things > too, but the default (init = 1) should stick to the "light > initialization" idea. > > Thanks, > Jean Delvare > >
