On Fri, 2021-08-20 at 12:43 +0200, Bastien Nocera wrote: > On Fri, 2021-08-20 at 22:33 +1200, Luke Jones wrote: > > > Am I going to get bug reports from Asus users that will complain > > > that > > > power-profiles-daemon doesn't work correctly, where I will have > > > to > > > wearily ask if they're using an Asus Rog laptop? > > > > No. Definitely not. The changes to fan curves per-profile need to > > be > > explicitly enabled and set. So a new user will be unaware that this > > control exists (until they look for it) and their laptop will > > behave > > exactly as default. > > "The user will need to change the fan curves manually so will > definitely remember to mention it in bug reports" is a very different > thing to "the user can't change the fan curves to be nonsensical and > mean opposite things". > > I can assure you that I will eventually get bug reports from "power > users" who break their setup and wonder why things don't work > properly, > without ever mentioning the changes they made changes to the fan > curves, or anything else they might have changed. A way to taint the settings that power-profiles-daemon could catch would be fine by me. I absolutely don't want to have to support somebody's tweaks until they undo them.
