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| author | Mateusz Jończyk <[email protected]> | 2022-02-12 13:56:54 +0100 |
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| committer | Guenter Roeck <[email protected]> | 2022-02-27 17:03:18 -0800 |
| commit | 5f86cce61c1d12219b2ea25b9404bf263a77dd72 (patch) | |
| tree | deeeec4a7fea7a59ce2b46f276f090132664f073 | |
| parent | a7a6f65a39a75a5821eb9aad157326c30f8bbb07 (diff) | |
hwmon: (dell-smm) rewrite CONFIG_I8K description
It is not the laptops, but the /proc/i8k interface that is legacy (or so
I think was the intention of the help text author). The old description
was confusing, fix this.
The phrase "Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on old Dell laptops
or want to use userspace package i8kutils." was introduced in 2015, in
commit 039ae58503f3 ("hwmon: Allow to compile dell-smm-hwmon driver without /proc/i8k")
I think that "old laptops" was about hotkey and Fn key support - this
driver in the 2.4 kernels' era apparently had these capabilities
(see: https://github.com/vitorafsr/i8kutils , description of
"repeat_rate" kernel module parameter).
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Jończyk <[email protected]>
Cc: Pali Rohár <[email protected]>
Cc: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
Cc: Mark Gross <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <[email protected]>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/hwmon/Kconfig | 17 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig b/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig index fceea537101d..ce9149e0648f 100644 --- a/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig @@ -507,19 +507,18 @@ config SENSORS_DELL_SMM userspace interface for i8kutils package. config I8K - bool "Dell i8k legacy laptop support" + bool "Legacy /proc/i8k interface of Dell laptop SMM BIOS hwmon driver" depends on SENSORS_DELL_SMM depends on PROC_FS help - This option enables legacy /proc/i8k userspace interface in hwmon - dell-smm-hwmon driver. Character file /proc/i8k reports bios version, - temperature and allows controlling fan speeds of Dell laptops via - System Management Mode. For old Dell laptops (like Dell Inspiron 8000) - it reports also power and hotkey status. For fan speed control is - needed userspace package i8kutils. + This option enables the legacy /proc/i8k userspace interface of the + dell-smm-hwmon driver. The character file /proc/i8k exposes the BIOS + version, temperatures and allows control of fan speeds of some Dell + laptops. Sometimes it also reports power and hotkey status. - Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on old Dell laptops or want to - use userspace package i8kutils. + This interface is required to run programs from the i8kutils package. + + Say Y if you intend to run userspace programs that use this interface. Say N otherwise. config SENSORS_DA9052_ADC |