Commit 5f86cce6 authored by Mateusz Jończyk's avatar Mateusz Jończyk Committed by Guenter Roeck

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 039ae585 ("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: default avatarMateusz Jończyk <mat.jonczyk@o2.pl>
Cc: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Mark Gross <markgross@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220212125654.357408-2-mat.jonczyk@o2.plSigned-off-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
parent a7a6f65a
......@@ -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
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