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-rw-r--r--drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c b/drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c
index 83a347ca35da..6e4516c2ab89 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/pwm-fan.c
@@ -427,7 +427,7 @@ static int pwm_fan_of_get_cooling_data(struct device *dev,
struct device_node *np = dev->of_node;
int num, i, ret;
- if (!of_find_property(np, "cooling-levels", NULL))
+ if (!of_property_present(np, "cooling-levels"))
return 0;
ret = of_property_count_u32_elems(np, "cooling-levels");
@@ -508,6 +508,14 @@ static int pwm_fan_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
pwm_init_state(ctx->pwm, &ctx->pwm_state);
/*
+ * PWM fans are controlled solely by the duty cycle of the PWM signal,
+ * they do not care about the exact timing. Thus set usage_power to true
+ * to allow less flexible hardware to work as a PWM source for fan
+ * control.
+ */
+ ctx->pwm_state.usage_power = true;
+
+ /*
* set_pwm assumes that MAX_PWM * (period - 1) fits into an unsigned
* long. Check this here to prevent the fan running at a too low
* frequency.