Commit 836ad112 authored Jan 27, 2018 by Pali Rohár Committed by Guenter Roeck Jan 27, 2018

hwmon: (dell-smm) Enable broken functionality via "force" module param



Some Dell machines are broken and some functionality is disabled. Show
warning into dmesg about this fact and allow user via "force" module param
to override brokenness and enable broken functionality.

Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>

parent 6509614f

drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c

+5 −2

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		@@ -1060,8 +1060,11 @@ static int __init i8k_probe(void)
		i8k_get_dmi_data(DMI_BIOS_VERSION));
		}

		if (dmi_check_system(i8k_blacklist_fan_type_dmi_table))
		if (dmi_check_system(i8k_blacklist_fan_type_dmi_table)) {
		pr_warn("broken Dell BIOS detected, disallow fan type call\n");
		if (!force)
		disallow_fan_type_call = true;
		}

		strlcpy(bios_version, i8k_get_dmi_data(DMI_BIOS_VERSION),
		sizeof(bios_version));