hwmon: (dell-smm) Reword and mark parameter "force" as unsafe
When enabling said module parameter, the driver ignores all feature blacklists on relevant models, which has the potential for strange side effects. Also there seems to be a slight chance for unsupported devices to behave badly when probed for features. In such cases, the kernel should be tainted to inform people that these issues might have been caused by the dell_smm_hwmon driver with "force" enabled. Also reword the parameter description to remind users that enabling "force" also enables blacklisted features. Tested on a Dell Inspiron 3505. Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de> Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220215191113.16640-8-W_Armin@gmx.deSigned-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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