On Tuesday 15 February 2022 20:11:13 Armin Wolf wrote:
> 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@xxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
> index 04a41d59da60..67d63932b48a 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
> @@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> MODULE_ALIAS("i8k");
>
> static bool force;
> -module_param(force, bool, 0);
> -MODULE_PARM_DESC(force, "Force loading without checking for supported models");
> +module_param_unsafe(force, bool, 0);
> +MODULE_PARM_DESC(force, "Force loading without checking for supported models and features");
>
> static bool ignore_dmi;
> module_param(ignore_dmi, bool, 0);
> --
> 2.30.2
>
