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hwmon: (dell-smm) Enable broken functionality via "force" module param

Some Dell machines are broken and some functionality is disabled. Show
warning into dmesg about this fact and allow user via "force" module param
to override brokenness and enable broken functionality.

Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Pali Rohár 7 years ago
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1 changed files with 5 additions and 2 deletions
  1. 5 2
      drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c

+ 5 - 2
drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c

@@ -1060,8 +1060,11 @@ static int __init i8k_probe(void)
 			i8k_get_dmi_data(DMI_BIOS_VERSION));
 	}
 
-	if (dmi_check_system(i8k_blacklist_fan_type_dmi_table))
-		disallow_fan_type_call = true;
+	if (dmi_check_system(i8k_blacklist_fan_type_dmi_table)) {
+		pr_warn("broken Dell BIOS detected, disallow fan type call\n");
+		if (!force)
+			disallow_fan_type_call = true;
+	}
 
 	strlcpy(bios_version, i8k_get_dmi_data(DMI_BIOS_VERSION),
 		sizeof(bios_version));