Re: [PATCH 4/5] platform/x86: dell-ddv: Add "force" module param

[Hans de Goede]

Hi again...

On 1/30/23 16:09, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> On 1/26/23 20:40, Armin Wolf wrote:
>> Until now, the dell-wmi-ddv driver needs to be manually
>> patched and compiled to test compatibility with unknown
>> DDV WMI interface versions.
>> Add a module param to allow users to force loading even
>> when a unknown interface version was detected. Since this
>> might cause various unwanted side effects, the module param
>> is marked as unsafe.
>> Also update kernel-parameters.txt.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt |  3 +++
>>  drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-ddv.c        | 13 +++++++++++--
>>  2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
>> index 6cfa6e3996cf..9bbff5113427 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
>> @@ -1024,6 +1024,9 @@
>>  	dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max=
>>  			[HW] Maximum configurable fan speed.
>>
>> +	dell_wmi_ddv.force=
>> +			[HW] Do not check for supported WMI interface versions.
>> +
>>  	dfltcc=		[HW,S390]
>>  			Format: { on | off | def_only | inf_only | always }
>>  			on:       s390 zlib hardware support for compression on
> 
> In my previous email I forgot to add that I have dropped this bit. I appreciate
> the effort to document this parameter, but if we add documentation for all
> existing parameters to Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt then
> the file will become quite unyielding / unusable.
> 
> So in general we only add new parameters which we expect to be important for
> a large group of users or necessary to debug serious problems like machines
> not booting.
> 
> I realize that a bunch of parameters in there do not match this, like
> e.g. dell_smm_hwmon.fan_max, these are just from older times when
> there were just less parameters, so listing them all was still ok.
> 
> So I have merged this patch, but with the Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
> bit dropped.

I forgot to add: and these days it is really easy to find all the supported parameters
for a module by just doing "modinfo <modulename>

Regards,

Hans