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diff --git a/Documentation/wmi/devices/dell-wmi-ddv.rst b/Documentation/wmi/devices/dell-wmi-ddv.rst index 2fcdfcf03327..e0c20af30948 100644 --- a/Documentation/wmi/devices/dell-wmi-ddv.rst +++ b/Documentation/wmi/devices/dell-wmi-ddv.rst @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Introduction ============ Many Dell notebooks made after ~2020 support a WMI-based interface for -retrieving various system data like battery temperature, ePPID, diagostic data +retrieving various system data like battery temperature, ePPID, diagnostic data and fan/thermal sensor data. This interface is likely used by the `Dell Data Vault` software on Windows, @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ Reverse-Engineering the DDV WMI interface 4. Try to deduce the meaning of a certain WMI method by comparing the control flow with other ACPI methods (_BIX or _BIF for battery related methods for example). -5. Use the built-in UEFI diagostics to view sensor types/values for fan/thermal +5. Use the built-in UEFI diagnostics to view sensor types/values for fan/thermal related methods (sometimes overwriting static ACPI data fields can be used to test different sensor type values, since on some machines this data is not reinitialized upon a warm reset). |