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 039ae58503f3 ("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: Mateusz Jończyk <mat.jonczyk@xxxxx>
Cc: Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Gross <markgross@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2:
- help text language fixes (thanks: Randy Dunlap),
- modify commit description.
---
drivers/hwmon/Kconfig | 17 ++++++++---------
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig b/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
index 1ee4e5eff567..39aeecc72800 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
@@ -506,19 +506,18 @@ 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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