[PATCH v2] hwmon: (dell-smm) Add Dell Precision 3650 Tower to fan control whitelist

From: Patrick Pepin

Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 04:33:05 EST


On the Dell Precision 3650 Tower, the EC ignores fan speed writes unless
automatic BIOS fan control is disabled first. The I8K_FAN_30A3_31A3 SMM
code pair 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, and writing 2 hands control
back to the BIOS. I8K_FAN_34A3_35A3 was tested as well and also works;
I8K_FAN_30A3_31A3 is used since it matches recent OEM software.

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>
---
v2: use I8K_FAN_30A3_31A3 instead of I8K_FAN_34A3_35A3 as suggested by
Armin Wolf (both pairs tested working on this machine). Pali's
Acked-by from v1 is not carried over because of this change.

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..99a58ed26 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_30A3_31A3],
+ },
{
.ident = "Dell Optiplex 7090",
.matches = {
--
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