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Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:31:25 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Guenter Roeck Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2026 09:31:24 -0700 From: Guenter Roeck To: Qian Xiao Cc: Ed Brindley , Denis Pauk , Jonathan Corbet , Shuah Khan , Randy Dunlap , linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] hwmon: (asus_wmi_sensors) Reword BIOS upgrade advice Message-ID: <08bd0bd3-a80f-41bd-a057-208da8e823cd@roeck-us.net> References: <20261016163509.249020-1-heyheyco@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20261016163509.249020-1-heyheyco@gmail.com> On Fri, Oct 16, 2026 at 09:35:08AM -0700, Qian Xiao wrote: > The Known Issues section suggests that upgrading to a BIOS with WMI > method version two or greater should rectify the problem. However, the > driver refuses to bind when the BIOS reports a version below two, so > every system using the driver already meets that condition and the > advice does not help. > > Instead, suggest that upgrading to a more recent BIOS version might > help. While at it, fix a typo in the preceding sentence. > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hwmon/CAFGXJCm6ZWK0NsFhZ1_ycgYtTTT3nhqj9mose60t+Rrry1aPvw@mail.gmail.com/ > Suggested-by: Guenter Roeck > Signed-off-by: Qian Xiao Applied. Thanks, Guenter