Thanks to bugreport 216655 on bugzilla, the contents of the fan/thermal sensor buffers could be almost completely decoded. It was also found out that newer Dell notebooks support a new DDV WMI interface version, which just adds a additional method. The first patch adds support for this new DDV WMI interface version, while the second patch simplifies error handling then dealing with empty buffers. The fourth patch adds a module param useful for testing the driver on hardware exposing an unsupported DDV WMI interface version. The last patch finally adds support for exposing the sensor values over a standard hwmon interface. The patch series was tested on a Dell Inspiron 3505, with the hwmon patch being tested by multiple people over bugzilla and email. Those who tested the final version of the hwmon patch are credited with Tested-by tags. Armin Wolf (5): platform/x86: dell-ddv: Add support for interface version 3 platform/x86: dell-ddv: Return error if buffer is empty platform/x86: dell-ddv: Replace EIO with ENOMSG platform/x86: dell-ddv: Add "force" module param platform/x86: dell-ddv: Add hwmon support .../admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 3 + drivers/platform/x86/dell/Kconfig | 1 + drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-ddv.c | 471 +++++++++++++++++- 3 files changed, 465 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) -- 2.30.2