Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (dell-smm) Add Dell Precision 3650 Tower to fan control whitelist

From: Pali Rohár

Date: Sun Sep 13 2026 - 07:36:25 EST


On Sunday 13 September 2026 11:29:25 Patrick Pepin wrote:
> 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).
>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Pepin <patpep@xxxxxx>

Acked-by: Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> 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 = {
> --
> 2.53.0
>