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    hwmon: add HP WMI Sensors driver · 23902f98
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    Hewlett-Packard (and some HP Compaq) business-class computers report
    hardware monitoring information via WMI. This driver exposes that
    information to hwmon.
    
    Initial support is provided for temperature, fan speed, and intrusion
    sensor types. Provisional support is provided for voltage and current
    sensor types.
    
    HP's WMI implementation permits many other types of numeric sensors.
    Therefore, a debugfs interface is also provided to enumerate and
    inspect all numeric sensors visible on the WMI side. This should
    facilitate adding support for other sensor types in the future.
    
    Tested on a HP Z420, a HP EliteOne 800 G1, and a HP Compaq Elite 8300
    SFF.
    
    Note that provisionally supported sensor types are untested and seem
    to be rare-to-nonexistent in the wild, having been encountered
    neither on test systems nor in ACPI dumps from the Linux Hardware
    Database. They are included because their popularity in general makes
    their presence on past or future HP systems plausible and because no
    doubt exists as to how the sensors themselves would be represented in
    WMI (alarm attributes will need to wait for hardware to be located).
    A 2005 HP whitepaper gives the relevant sensor object MOF definition
    and sensor value scaling calculation, and both this driver and the
    official HP Performance Advisor utility comply with them (confirmed
    in the latter case by reverse engineering).
    
    Link: https://h20331.www2.hp.com/hpsub/downloads/cmi_whitepaper.pdfSigned-off-by: default avatarJames Seo <james@equiv.tech>
    Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230522115645.509701-1-james@equiv.tech
    [groeck: Set error return value for intrusion writes to -EINVAL.
    	 Always accept writes of 0 even if there was no intrusion. ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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