Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] hwmon: (nct6775) Support lock by ACPI mutex

Denis Pauk
2021-12-18T19:17:50Z

On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 18:14:19 +0100
Eugene Shalygin <eugene.shalygin@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 at 17:23, Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
> wrote:
>
> > At some point, we have to face it: ASUS doesn't support Linux, and
> > they make it hard to access chips like this. I think the chip
> > should be accessed through "official" channels only if provided (ie
> > WMI/ACPI), or not at all.
>
> My two cents, if you please. Unfortunately, ASUS doesn't support
> Windows as well, they only support their own shitty software, and they
> change the WMI methods (both names and logic). For example, just
> recently they packed a full hardware monitoring solution in X470
> boards in WMI, then removed it in X570 and changed hardware access
> function names. In order to add support for their next WMI
> implementation, one needs to thoroughly read the decompiled DSDT code,
> find functions, learn their logic and test. This is hard to do
> remotely, without the hardware, obviously. On the other hand it is
> much easier to find the required mutex name from the DSDT code and
> access the chip normally.
>
> Best regards,
> Eugene

I will try to continue to support patch as part of
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204807.

And If we will have some better solution or ideas, I will send updated
patch.

Thank you!

Best regards,
Denis.