On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 4:51 PM Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Saturday 22 June 2024 16:21:28 Hans de Goede wrote: > > On 6/22/24 3:32 PM, Pali Rohár wrote: > > > On Friday 21 June 2024 14:25:01 Hans de Goede wrote: ... > > > Have you communicated > > > with Dell about this problem? > > > > Dell is on the Cc of this thread, as well as the previous v2 posting: > > > > Cc: Dell.Client.Kernel@xxxxxxxx > > And what do you think, that if you send tons of long emails with C code > to lot of recipients and add a carbon copy of all those your emails to > some corporate group address, that somebody on that group address will > read every one paragraph of every your email and tries to detect in if > there is not hidden some question to which you want to know answer? > No, with this behavior you are going to be put on the corporate > spam list by automated systems. > > This looks like you just wanted to mark your personal checkbox > "I sent email to some dell address" and let it as is. > > In past when I sent private email to dell I normally received responses. > Also they said to me that group address is (or at that time was) > monitored. > > So it would be nice to start communication with dell and figure out what > is the current state of smbus address detection via ACPI/WMI/DMI/whatever, > instead of adding this hacks via poking of smbus addresses. > > And in case the mentioned group address does not work anymore there are > still other linux developers from dell who could be able to figure > something out. I would put it as "does Dell care about Linux?". If they do, they should react to the messages in the Cc list. I was trying, for example, to communicate with Relatek on some ACPI ID matters and despite having tons of active developers it was no help. They evidently don't care, so why would I? -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
