lwmi_om_hwmon_write(9)

📦 version 7.3.1, in nixpkgs unstable

💅 lwmi_om_hwmon_write(9) 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this one's lwmi_om_hwmon_write(9) and it's literally the function that pushes your config values down into the hardware through WMI. let me walk you through it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

lwmi_om_hwmon_write — the one that writes HWMON sensor data 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int lwmi_om_hwmon_write (struct device *dev , enum hwmon_sensor_types
type , u32 attr , int channel , long val );

that's the whole signature, no cap. five args, one int coming back atcha 💖

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

  • dev — the Device pointer, aka who we're talking to 👑
  • type — the Sensor type, like which flavor of sensor we're dealing with
  • attr — the Attribute identifier, the specific thing you want
  • channel — the Channel index, picking which lane 🛣️
  • val — the Value to write, the actual payload, the main character of this whole operation ⭐

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so what does it do? it writes configuration values to hardware through the WMI interface. that's it, that's the vibe. config in, hardware gets it, slay ✨

🍓 RETURN 🍓

0 on success 🎉 — or an error code if things did NOT go off 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

the kernel file lives at ./drivers/platform/x86/lenovo/wmi-other.c — go look, iykyk 📂

and here's the whole friend group, fr fr:

and that's the page!! mwah 💋 this whole thing ships from ./drivers/platform/x86/lenovo, dated October 2026 — go forth and write those sensor values, bestie, i believe in you 🧚💖

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