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powerpc/windfarm: Fix noisy slots-fan on Xserve (rm31)

slots-fan on G5 Xserve is always running at full speed with windfarm_rm31
driver, resulting in a very high acoustic noise level. It seems the fan
parameters are incorrect, and have been copied from the Drive Bay fan
(RPM, not present on rm31) of the legacy therm_pm72 driver. This patch
changes the parameters to match the Slots fan (PWM) of therm_pm72. With
the patch, slots-fan speed drops from 99% to 19% during normal use,
and slots-temp settle to ~42'C.

Signed-off-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

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Aaro Koskinen and committed by
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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drivers/macintosh/windfarm_rm31.c
··· 439 439 440 440 /* Slots fan */ 441 441 static const struct wf_pid_param slots_param = { 442 - .interval = 5, 443 - .history_len = 2, 444 - .gd = 30 << 20, 445 - .gp = 5 << 20, 446 - .gr = 0, 447 - .itarget = 40 << 16, 448 - .additive = 1, 449 - .min = 300, 450 - .max = 4000, 442 + .interval = 1, 443 + .history_len = 20, 444 + .gd = 0, 445 + .gp = 0, 446 + .gr = 0x00100000, 447 + .itarget = 3200000, 448 + .additive = 0, 449 + .min = 20, 450 + .max = 100, 451 451 }; 452 452 453 453 static void slots_fan_tick(void)