It is not the laptops, but the /proc/i8k interface that is legacy (or so
I think was the intention of the help text author). The old description
was confusing, fix this.
The phrase "Say Y if you intend to run this kernel on old Dell laptops
or want to use userspace package i8kutils." was introduced in 2015, in
commit 039ae58503 ("hwmon: Allow to compile dell-smm-hwmon driver without /proc/i8k")
I think that "old laptops" was about hotkey and Fn key support - this
driver in the 2.4 kernels' era apparently had these capabilities
(see: https://github.com/vitorafsr/i8kutils , description of
"repeat_rate" kernel module parameter).
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Jończyk <mat.jonczyk@o2.pl>
Cc: Pali Rohár <pali@kernel.org>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Mark Gross <markgross@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220212125654.357408-2-mat.jonczyk@o2.pl
Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
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