Re: [PATCH] Add ASRock HDD Saver support

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Mon May 03 2021 - 13:12:23 EST


On 5/3/21 8:58 AM, Paweł Marciniak wrote:
> Some of the asrock motherboards are equipped with hdd saver technology.
> It is implemented via a special power connector on the motherboard and a corresponding custom made power cable with two SATA power ports.
> The control is via the gpio10 pin of the nct6791d chip.
> When this technology is available the module creates the hddsaver_enable file.
> Reading the file returns the current status, while writing turns off or on the power of the SATA connectors.
>
> Supported motheboards:
> ASRock Z97 Extreme4 - works 100% tested.
> ASRock Z97 Extreme6 - Based on boardview/schematic should works, not tested.
> Other ASRock motherboards supporting this technology - status unknown.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paweł Marciniak <sunwire@xxxxxxxxx>

I don't see what this has to do with hardware monitoring.
I am not going to apply this patch. Feel free to submit
a platform driver to implement such functionality.

Guenter