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krknmon

NZXT Kraken 4th generation AIO cooler (X53, X63, X73) HWMon driver

This module is made as an attempt to learn about developing modules for the kernel, and it is likely unstable. You've been warned.

Said that, now you can continue reading.

krknmon is a kernel module that defines an HWMon device for monitoring a NZXT Kraken X53/X63/X73 All-In-One cooler device. This module exposes the pump speed of the device, the liquid temperature and (TODO) allows to modify the speed of the pump. Since it uses the hwmon interface, these values are available directly form the sysfs filesystem or from hardware monitoring programs such as lm_sensors.

This module has been tested on Linux kernel versions 5.4/5.6 using a NZXT Kraken X63 device. It should work on other devices of the same generation, such as X53 and X73, but this is far from being guaranteed. This module is not compatible with older devices (X52, X62, X72).

This module may partially work with other third-party projects for controlling other aspects of the device such the LED ilumination (tested with liquidctl). This is because the hidraw endpoint of the device is connected even when the module is working, for allowing this tools to work. It has been observed that some operations like the initialization of the device that the liquidctl project does, might give some issues with the module (still investigating), so it is recommended only use this other projects for accessing the device for doing operations that the module does not support (seems to work fine for changing leds and that suff anyway).

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Licensed under GNU GPL v3.

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