A Linux driver has been published for the ARCTIC Fan Controller to be able to read fan speeds under Linux as well as setting the PWM fan speed for each of the ten fans supported by this controller. Making this driver all the more exciting is that ARCTIC Cooling is directly working on this driver rather than just being a community/third-party creation. Furthermore, ARCTIC Cooling is working on getting this driver to the upstream Linux kernel.
Aureo Serrano of ARCTIC Cooling posted the hardware monitoring (HWMON) Linux driver for review. The ARCTIC Fan Controller supports 10 fan channels and this driver gets the fan speed reporting and PWM fan speed controls working using the standardized Linux HWMON interfaces.
This driver is just around 300 lines of C code and developed by ARCTIC. Simple device, simple driver but great to see the vendor directly working on this fan controller driver rather than leaving it up to the open-source community as is so often the case with such desktop/gaming/enthusiast type peripherals.
Those interested in this ARCTIC Fan Controller driver for Linux can find it currently out for review on the Linux kernel mailing list.
