> Adds support for the Lenovo Legion series of laptop hardware to use WMI > interfaces that control various power settings. Note that there already is a driver for Lenovo Legion laptops that I wanted to merge upstream. https://github.com/johnfanv2/LenovoLegionLinux Compared to the proposed patch, it has the following advantages: 1. already popular and tested by thousands of users - many stars and discussions on github - patched into multiple kernels of gaming-related distros - packaged as dkms module for almost all relevant Linux distributions including Debian by other developers 2. supports many different Lenovo Legion models starting from 2020/2021 3. supports a lot of more functions, including fan control, which is the most requested feature 4. supports the many changes between different in the WMI/ACPI method 5. actually shares some credtis with persons who revere engineered it :) 6. support by GUI tool to configure it all On the other hand, my driver has the following disadvantages: 1. The version of master on github is the most recent one and contains a lot of debug output that has to be removed (often indicated by TODO) 2. It is all in one large c file instead of organizing it neatly into multiple files. 3. It was modeled after the ideapad driver instead of the newer ASUS driver. A few notes regarding the many changes of the WMI methods that I tried to deal with in my driver: note that in almost every new model a new WMI method is used to control the same functionality (e.g. fan control or powermode). Additionally, often the constants or the unit changes : e.g. percent or rpm for fan speed. > The driver has been tested by me on the Lenovo Legion Go. The driver on github has been tested by thousands of users. I suggest that we maybe combine the two drivers before merging them, since Derek seems to have more kernel patching knowledge and I seem to have more worked on all the Legion laptops.
