Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] hwmon: (cros_ec) add PWM control over fans
From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Wed Jul 16 2025 - 19:59:33 EST
On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 02:49:13PM +0800, Sung-Chi Li wrote:
> From: Sung-Chi Li <lschyi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Newer EC firmware supports controlling fans through host commands, so
> adding corresponding implementations for controlling these fans in the
> driver for other kernel services and userspace to control them.
>
> The driver will first probe the supported host command versions (get and
> set of fan PWM values, get and set of fan control mode) to see if the
> connected EC fulfills the requirements of controlling the fan, then
> exposes corresponding sysfs nodes for userspace to control the fan with
> corresponding read and write implementations.
> As EC will automatically change the fan mode to auto when the device is
> suspended, the power management hooks are added as well to keep the fan
> control mode and fan PWM value consistent during suspend and resume. As
> we need to access the hwmon device in the power management hook, update
> the driver by storing the hwmon device in the driver data as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sung-Chi Li <lschyi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Please run checkpatch --strict on your patches and fix what it reports.
Guenter