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Re: [PATCH 3/6] hwmon: (dell-smm) Disallow fan_type() calls on broken machines

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On Saturday 18 June 2016 22:08:17 Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 06/17/2016 03:54 PM, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Applied.
> 
> It seemed worthwhile to apply this patch now, without waiting for
> further test feedback, since it at least reduces the impact of the
> observed problems. If follow-up changes are necessary, those will
> have to be applied in separate patches.
> 
> Guenter

Ok. Meanwhile patch was tested on Inspiron 580, so maybe it could be 
appended into commit message.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com

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[PATCH 0/6] dell-smm-hwmon fixes Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 01:00 +0200
  [PATCH 5/6] hwmon: (dell-smm) Detect fan with index=2 Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 01:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 5/6] hwmon: (dell-smm) Detect fan with index=2 Tolga Cakir <cevelnet@gmail.com> - 2016-06-19 02:10 +0200
  [PATCH 4/6] hwmon: (dell-smm) Cache fan_type() calls and change fan detection Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 01:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 4/6] hwmon: (dell-smm) Cache fan_type() calls and change  fan detection Tolga Cakir <cevelnet@gmail.com> - 2016-06-19 02:10 +0200
  [PATCH 1/6] hwmon: (dell-smm) Fail in ioctl I8K_BIOS_VERSION when bios version is not a number Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 01:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 1/6] hwmon: (dell-smm) Fail in ioctl I8K_BIOS_VERSION when  bios version is not a number Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-06-18 22:10 +0200
  [PATCH 3/6] hwmon: (dell-smm) Disallow fan_type() calls on broken machines Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 01:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 3/6] hwmon: (dell-smm) Disallow fan_type() calls on broken  machines Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-06-18 22:10 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 3/6] hwmon: (dell-smm) Disallow fan_type() calls on broken machines Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-19 00:50 +0200
  [PATCH 2/6] hwmon: (dell-smm) Restrict fan control and serial number to CAP_SYS_ADMIN by default Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 01:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 2/6] hwmon: (dell-smm) Restrict fan control and serial  number to CAP_SYS_ADMIN by default Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-06-18 22:10 +0200
  [PATCH 6/6] hwmon: (dell-smm) In debug mode log duration of SMM calls Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 01:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/6] dell-smm-hwmon fixes Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 14:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/6] dell-smm-hwmon fixes Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-06-18 17:20 +0200
    Re: [PATCH 0/6] dell-smm-hwmon fixes Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-18 17:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH 0/6] dell-smm-hwmon fixes Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-06-18 19:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/6] dell-smm-hwmon fixes Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-19 00:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH 0/6] dell-smm-hwmon fixes Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-20 11:20 +0200
            Re: [PATCH 0/6] dell-smm-hwmon fixes Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-06-20 15:30 +0200
              Re: [PATCH 0/6] dell-smm-hwmon fixes Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-23 14:20 +0200
                Re: [PATCH 0/6] dell-smm-hwmon fixes Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> - 2016-06-23 16:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH 0/6] dell-smm-hwmon fixes Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-06-19 00:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 0/6] dell-smm-hwmon fixes Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2016-06-22 10:10 +0200

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