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    ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add a fan-control feature master toggle · ecf2a80a
    Henrique de Moraes Holschuh authored
    Len Brown considers that an active by default fan control interface in
    laptops may be too close to giving users enough rope.  There is a good
    chance he is quite correct on this, especially if someone decides to use
    that interface in applets and users are not aware of its risks.
    
    This patch adds a master switch to thinkpad-acpi that enables or disables
    the entire fan-control feature as a module parameter: "fan_control".  It
    defaults to disabled.  Set it to non-zero to enable fan control.
    
    Also, the patch removes the expermiental status from fan control, since it
    is stable enough to not be called experimental, and the master switch makes
    it safe enough to do so.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLen Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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