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From: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
To: "Patrick Pepin" <patpep@me.com>, "Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>,
	"Guenter Roeck" <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (dell-smm) Add Dell Precision 3650 Tower to fan control whitelist
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 22:16:23 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c276dd95-8d35-476b-8ffd-5bd78bd3a689@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260913112925.11393-1-patpep@me.com>

Am 13.09.26 um 13:29 schrieb Patrick Pepin:

> On the Dell Precision 3650 Tower, the EC ignores fan speed writes unless
> automatic BIOS fan control is disabled first. The same SMM code pair as
> the OptiPlex 7000 (I8K_FAN_34A3_35A3) works on this machine through the
> WMI-SMM backend: after writing 1 to pwm1_enable, all three fans (CPU,
> front, top) accept the three fan states and report matching RPM.
>
> Tested on BIOS 1.48.0 with kernels 7.0.0-30 and 7.0.0-31 (Ubuntu 26.04).

Hi,

can you try if I8K_FAN_30A3_31A3 works too? Those are the commands used by
recent releases of the OEM software, so i would prefer using them.

Thanks,
Armin Wolf

> Signed-off-by: Patrick Pepin <patpep@me.com>
> ---
>   drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c | 8 ++++++++
>   1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
> index 7ed94a3db..47668634f 100644
> --- a/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
> +++ b/drivers/hwmon/dell-smm-hwmon.c
> @@ -1639,6 +1639,14 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id i8k_whitelist_fan_control[] __initconst = {
>   		},
>   		.driver_data = (void *)&i8k_fan_control_data[I8K_FAN_34A3_35A3],
>   	},
> +	{
> +		.ident = "Dell Precision 3650 Tower",
> +		.matches = {
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
> +			DMI_EXACT_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Precision 3650 Tower"),
> +		},
> +		.driver_data = (void *)&i8k_fan_control_data[I8K_FAN_34A3_35A3],
> +	},
>   	{
>   		.ident = "Dell Optiplex 7090",
>   		.matches = {

  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-09-13 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-13 11:29 Patrick Pepin
2026-09-13 11:35 ` Pali Rohár
2026-09-13 20:16 ` Armin Wolf [this message]
2026-09-14  8:09 ` [PATCH v2] " Patrick Pepin
2026-09-14  9:46   ` Pali Rohár
2026-09-16 14:53   ` Guenter Roeck

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