platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Add support for manual fan control

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All models with the "AWCC" WMAX device support a way of manually
controlling fans.

The PWM duty cycle of a fan can't be controlled directly. Instead the
AWCC interface let's us tune a fan `boost` value, which has the
following empirically discovered, approximate behavior over the PWM
value:

	pwm = pwm_base + (fan_boost / 255) * (pwm_max - pwm_base)

Where the pwm_base is the locked PWM value controlled by the FW and
fan_boost is a value between 0 and 255.

Expose this fan_boost knob as a custom HWMON attribute.

Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>
Cc: linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250329-hwm-v7-8-a14ea39d8a94@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>

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Kurt Borja 2025-03-29 04:32:25 -03:00 • committed by Ilpo Järvinen

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drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-wmax.c

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