Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] hwmon: (dell-smm) Add support for WMI SMM interface

[Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>]

Am 06.11.23 um 07:43 schrieb Armin Wolf:

> This patch series adds support for an alternative SMM calling
> backend to the dell-smm-hwmon driver. The reason for this is
> that on some modern machines, the legacy SMM calling interface
> does not work anymore and the SMM handler can be called over
> ACPI WMI instead.
>
> The first four patches prepare the driver by allowing to
> specify different SMM calling backends, and by moving most of
> the DMI handling into i8k_init() so that the DMI tables can
> keep their __initconst attributes (the WMI SMM backend driver
> does not probe at module init time). The fifth patch does some
> minor cleanup, while the next three patches implement the new
> WMI SMM calling backend. The last patch adds the machine of
> the user who requested and tested the changes to the fan control
> whitelist.
>
> If the driver does not detect the legacy SMM interface, either
> because the machine is not whitelisted or because the SMM handler
> does not react, it registers an WMI driver which will then bound
> to the WMI SMM interface and do the remaining initialization.
>
> The deprecated procfs interface is not supported when using the
> WMI SMM calling backend for the following reason: the WMI driver
> can potentially be instantiated multiple times while the deprectated
> procfs interface cannot. This should not cause any regressions
> because on machines supporting only the WMI SMM interface, the
> driver would, until now, not load anyway.
>
> All patches where tested on a Dell Inspiron 3505 and a Dell
> OptiPlex 7000.

Any thoughts on this?

Armin Wolf

>
> Changes since v2:
> - Rework WMI response parsing
> - Use #define for method number
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Cc platform driver maintainers
> - Fix formating inside documentation
>
> Armin Wolf (9):
>    hwmon: (dell-smm) Prepare for multiple SMM calling backends
>    hwmon: (dell-smm) Move blacklist handling to module init
>    hwmon: (dell-smm) Move whitelist handling to module init
>    hwmon: (dell-smm) Move DMI config handling to module init
>    hwmon: (dell-smm) Move config entries out of i8k_dmi_table
>    hwmon: (dell-smm) Introduce helper function for data init
>    hwmon: (dell-smm) Add support for WMI SMM interface
>    hwmon: (dell-smm) Document the WMI SMM interface
>    hwmon: (dell-smm) Add Optiplex 7000 to fan control whitelist
>
>   Documentation/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.rst |  38 +-
>   drivers/hwmon/Kconfig                  |   1 +
>   drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c         | 603 +++++++++++++++++--------
>   drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c             |   1 +
>   4 files changed, 453 insertions(+), 190 deletions(-)
>
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> 2.39.2
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