Hello, currently i8k driver for DELLDIAG SMM operations (charger, battery, hotkeys, temperature and fan control) supports two interfaces: 1) old /proc/i8k char device 2) new hwmon interface Driver now lives in char subsystem, but nowadays I think lot of people are interested only in hwmon interface which provides temperature & fan control. Power management and hotkeys support (which is missing in 2) but provided by 1)) is already handled by ACPI or input subsystem for new laptops. Also name "i8k" is really non intuitive what it means and supports... (I was told it is abbreviation for Inspirion 8000 model which was probably first dell model supported by that DELLDIAG interface). Now driver is used on Vostro, Latitude and also Precision and XPS models. I think at least "dell" should be part of driver name and config option. So I have idea for some changes: 1) Move driver from char subsystem to hwmon 2) Rename driver from i8k to something like delldiag or dellsmm 3) Add new CONFIG_ option to enable/disable /proc/i8k device and compile only hwmon interface support What do you think about it? I do not want to delete /proc/i8k interface (or break support for it) as there are still userspace applications which use this old interface and for old models it is probably only way how to detect power supply and multimedia hotkeys... -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
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