On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 01:08:42PM +0100, Thomas Haschka wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The current driver linux/drivers/macintosh/therm_adt746x.c does not > take the HDD BUTTOMSIDE sensor into account. It actually should as the > 12" Powerbooks and IBooks are build in a way that the airflow cools > the harddrive and components around it. Actually there are air intake > openings just beneath the Harddrive. If you experiance hot > enviromental temperatures as I did in summer on certain occations, you > will find out that in MacOSX the fan spins up while it doesn't in > linux. As this probably causes harddrives, and maybe other components > to fail early I think this should be regarded as a fix to a severe > bug. > > Hence, I created this patch for single fan 12" Albooks, Ibooks etc. > > Further I changed the output /sys/devices/temperatures so that all 3 > sensors are readable from this locations. The output is furhter > multiplied by 1000 in order correspond to the ranges printed by other > sensor readings. ( This also makes the readings monitorable with tools > such as xosview ) > > I sign this contribution as demanded, and hope that it will help > keeping several Powerbooks and Ibooks out there running a bit longer: > > (a) The contribution was created in whole by me and I > have the right to submit it under the GPLv2 > (Gnu Public License version 2) > > (b) The contribution is based upon previous work that, to the best of > my knowledge, is covered under an appropriate open source license and > I have the right under that license to submit that work with > modifications, whether created in whole or in part by me, under the > same open source license > > (d) I understand and agree that this project and the contribution are > public and that a record of the contribution (including all personal > information I submit with it, including my sign-off) is maintained > indefinitely and may be redistributed consistent with this project or > the open source license(s) involved. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Haschka (haschka@xxxxxxxxx) <formletter> This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the stable kernel tree. Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do this properly. </formletter> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html