On Tue, Aug 06, 2019 at 10:21:23AM +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: > I have been using SENSORS_W83795_FANCTRL for several years and never > had any problem. When the driver was added, I had not tested that > part of the driver yet so I wanted to be super cautious, but time has > shown that it works just fine. > > In the long run I even believe that we should drop the option and > enable the feature unconditionally. It doesn't do anything until the > user explicitly starts twiddling with sysfs attributes anyway. > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxx> Applied to hwmon-next. And, yes, dropping the option is fine with me. Thanks, Guenter > --- > drivers/hwmon/Kconfig | 7 +------ > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-) > > --- linux-5.2.orig/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig 2019-07-08 00:41:56.000000000 +0200 > +++ linux-5.2/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig 2019-08-06 09:55:16.344547556 +0200 > @@ -1834,17 +1834,12 @@ config SENSORS_W83795 > will be called w83795. > > config SENSORS_W83795_FANCTRL > - bool "Include automatic fan control support (DANGEROUS)" > + bool "Include automatic fan control support" > depends on SENSORS_W83795 > help > If you say yes here, support for automatic fan speed control > will be included in the driver. > > - This part of the code wasn't carefully reviewed and tested yet, > - so enabling this option is strongly discouraged on production > - servers. Only developers and testers should enable it for the > - time being. > - > Please also note that this option will create sysfs attribute > files which may change in the future, so you shouldn't rely > on them being stable.
