CONFIG_SENSORS_DELL_SMM: Dell laptop SMM BIOS hwmon driver

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_SENSORS_DELL_SMM:

• prompt: Dell laptop SMM BIOS hwmon driver
• type: tristate
• depends on: ( CONFIG_ACPI_WMI ) && ( CONFIG_X86 )
• defined in drivers/hwmon/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 4.2–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.12
• modules built: dell-smm-hwmon

Help text

This hwmon driver adds support for reporting temperature of different sensors and controls the fans on Dell laptops via System Management Mode provided by Dell BIOS.

When option I8K is also enabled this driver provides legacy /proc/i8k userspace interface for i8kutils package.

Hardware

LKDDb

Raw data from LKDDb:

• lkddb module dell-smm-hwmon CONFIG_SENSORS_DELL_SMM : drivers/hwmon/Kconfig : "Dell laptop SMM BIOS hwmon driver" # in 4.2–4.20, 5.0–5.19, 6.0–6.12
• lkddb platform "" : CONFIG_HWMON CONFIG_SENSORS_DELL_SMM : drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c # in 5.15–5.19, 6.0–6.12

Sources

This page is automaticly generated with free (libre, open) software lkddb(see lkddb-sources).

The data is retrived from:

• Linux kernel
• Linux Kernel Driver DataBase (LKDDb)

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