HP WMI Driver To Expose More Sensors Under Linux For Business-Class Systems

[phoronix]

Phoronix: HP WMI Driver To Expose More Sensors Under Linux For Business-Class Systems

A patch was posted this week introducing a new "hp-wmi-sensors" Linux kernel driver for HP business-class computers for exposing WMI sensor functionality...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-HP-WMI-Sensors-Patches

[mangeek]

I'd love to see HP being a little more pro-active with this sort of thing. I have a Spectre x360 laptop that needs to be weirdly massaged in software to get audio to come out of the speakers, and I know they could submit a patch for it so easily.

[PAUL007]

will it work on pavillion laptop all I see acpi bugs in dmesg

[cjcox]

Not sure "everything" (computers) HP makes will have a WMI component. I could see this for management boards, so was surprised to see this style being used outside of that.

[lowflyer]

In my company we do operate quite a few HP Z400 and Z420. Despite them being dated by now, they are quite solid computers. We did have serious problems getting the drivers *under the microsoft windows operating system*. Linux was never a problem with these. However we didn't look into the sensors details.