Commit 0c99c528 authored Dec 17, 2009 by Zhang Rui Committed by Len Brown Dec 28, 2009

ACPI: Disable explicit power state retrieval on fans

If the ACPI power state can be got both directly and indirectly,
we prefer to get it indirectly.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531916

 describes a
system with a _PSC method for the fan that always returns "on".
There's no benefit in us always requesting the state of the fan
when performing transitions - we want to do everything we can
to ensure that the fan turns on when it should do, not risk
hardware damage by believing the hardware when it tells us the
fan is already on. Given that the Leading Other OS(tm) works fine
on this machine, it seems likely that it behaves in much this way.

inspired-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

parent 6b7b2849

drivers/acpi/bus.c

+5 −5

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -190,16 +190,16 @@ int acpi_bus_get_power(acpi_handle handle, int *state)
		* Get the device's power state either directly (via _PSC) or
		* indirectly (via power resources).
		*/
		if (device->power.flags.explicit_get) {
		if (device->power.flags.power_resources) {
		result = acpi_power_get_inferred_state(device);
		if (result)
		return result;
		} else if (device->power.flags.explicit_get) {
		status = acpi_evaluate_integer(device->handle, "_PSC",
		NULL, &psc);
		if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
		return -ENODEV;
		device->power.state = (int)psc;
		} else if (device->power.flags.power_resources) {
		result = acpi_power_get_inferred_state(device);
		if (result)
		return result;
		}

		*state = device->power.state;

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