From: "Kurt Borja" <kuurtb@gmail.com>
To: "Guenter Roeck" <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Jean Delvare" <jdelvare@suse.com>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>,
"Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] hwmon: (dell-smm) Increment the number of fans
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2025 09:31:29 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D8DICX20T6AI.3CFMJMR1W0SGF@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bfb70a81-2ac1-428c-a327-d5098a8d3ce8@roeck-us.net>
Hi Guenter,
On Tue Mar 11, 2025 at 9:13 AM -05, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 04, 2025 at 12:52:50AM -0500, Kurt Borja wrote:
>> Some Alienware laptops that support the SMM interface, may have up to 4
>> fans.
>>
>> Tested on an Alienware x15 r1.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@gmail.com>
>
> Oh, never mind, I'll apply this patch. If it causes trouble on older machines,
> we may have to make it conditional, but that is not a reason to hold it up.
>
> Guenter
Thank you!
AFAIK most systems have < 2 fans, so this driver already probes fans
until failure for these systems.
If I get notified about problems, I'll amend it with a quirk approach.
--
~ Kurt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-11 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-04 5:52 [PATCH v1 1/1] hwmon: (dell-smm) Increment the number of fans Kurt Borja
2025-03-10 0:11 ` Guenter Roeck
2025-03-11 14:13 ` Guenter Roeck
2025-03-11 14:31 ` Kurt Borja [this message]
2025-03-11 18:17 ` Armin Wolf
2025-03-11 18:29 ` Kurt Borja
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