Re: [PATCH v6 1/2] hwmon: (cros_ec) add PWM control over fans

From: Guenter Roeck
Date: Fri Jul 18 2025 - 13:38:07 EST


On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 03:08:29PM +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>

Applied.

Thanks,
Guenter