[PATCH v2 2/2] hwmon: (dell-smm) Improve warning messages

[Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>]

When dell-smm-hwmon is loaded on a machine with a buggy BIOS
with the option "force" being enabled, it wrongly prints
that the buggy features where disabled. This may cause
users to wrongly assume that the driver still protects them
from these BIOS bugs even with "force" being enabled.

Replace the messages with two messages each which are depending
on the value of the "force" parameter. The messages which are
being printed when "force" is not set use dev_notice() instead
of dev_warn() since they only serve as a notice.

Tested on a Dell Inspiron 3505.

Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
---
 drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
index 9cac80358072..01a94b62c2ab 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
@@ -1356,15 +1356,21 @@ static int __init dell_smm_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	platform_set_drvdata(pdev, data);

 	if (dmi_check_system(i8k_blacklist_fan_support_dmi_table)) {
-		dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "broken Dell BIOS detected, disallow fan support\n");
-		if (!force)
+		if (!force) {
+			dev_notice(&pdev->dev, "Disabling fan support due to BIOS bugs\n");
 			data->disallow_fan_support = true;
+		} else {
+			dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "Enabling fan support despite BIOS bugs\n");
+		}
 	}

 	if (dmi_check_system(i8k_blacklist_fan_type_dmi_table)) {
-		dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "broken Dell BIOS detected, disallow fan type call\n");
-		if (!force)
+		if (!force) {
+			dev_notice(&pdev->dev, "Disabling fan type call due to BIOS bugs\n");
 			data->disallow_fan_type_call = true;
+		} else {
+			dev_warn(&pdev->dev, "Enabling fan type call despite BIOS bugs\n");
+		}
 	}

 	strscpy(data->bios_version, i8k_get_dmi_data(DMI_BIOS_VERSION),
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