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Pali Rohár committed 2744d2fde00
hwmon: (dell-smm) Disallow fan_type() calls on broken machines
Some Dell machines have especially broken SMM or BIOS which cause that once
fan_type() is called then CPU fan speed going randomly up and down. And for
fixing this behaviour reboot is required.
So this patch creates fan_type blacklist of affected Dell machines and
disallow fan_type() call on them to prevent that erratic behaviour.
Old blacklist which disabled loading driver on some machines added in
commits a4b45b25f18d ("hwmon: (dell-smm) Blacklist Dell Studio XPS 8100")
and 6220f4ebd7b4 ("hwmon: (dell-smm) Blacklist Dell Studio XPS 8000") were
moved to FAN_TYPE blacklist.
Reported-by: Jan C Peters <jcpeters89@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100121
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.0+, will need backport
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>