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| author | Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> | 2018-01-27 17:22:01 +0100 |
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| committer | Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> | 2018-01-27 09:33:38 -0800 |
| commit | 836ad11235d04f7a6fcd41b1abceaeacc70153c0 (patch) | |
| tree | 1f23f37235deddeed5bb5fabf6f81593c98062f6 /drivers/hwmon | |
| parent | 6509614fdd2d05c6926d50901a45d5dfb852b715 (diff) | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/hwmon')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c index c7c9e95e58a8..aef4f8317ae2 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c +++ b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c @@ -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)) - disallow_fan_type_call = true; + 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)); |