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hwmon: w83795: Fan control option isn't that dangerous
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I have been using SENSORS_W83795_FANCTRL for several years and never
had any problem. When the driver was added, I had not tested that
part of the driver yet so I wanted to be super cautious, but time has
shown that it works just fine.

In the long run I even believe that we should drop the option and
enable the feature unconditionally. It doesn't do anything until the
user explicitly starts twiddling with sysfs attributes anyway.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190806102123.3118bcc5@endymion
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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Jean Delvare authored and Guenter Roeck committed Sep 3, 2019
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Expand Up @@ -1824,17 +1824,12 @@ config SENSORS_W83795
will be called w83795.

config SENSORS_W83795_FANCTRL
bool "Include automatic fan control support (DANGEROUS)"
bool "Include automatic fan control support"
depends on SENSORS_W83795
help
If you say yes here, support for automatic fan speed control
will be included in the driver.

This part of the code wasn't carefully reviewed and tested yet,
so enabling this option is strongly discouraged on production
servers. Only developers and testers should enable it for the
time being.

Please also note that this option will create sysfs attribute
files which may change in the future, so you shouldn't rely
on them being stable.
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