On Wednesday 24 February 2016 08:20:13 Michał Kępień wrote: > On some laptop models (e.g. Dell Vostro V131), WMI events are not > generated until a specific SMBIOS request is issued to register an event > listener [1]. As there seems to be no ACPI method or SMBIOS request to > determine without possible side effects whether a given machine needs to > issue this SMBIOS request in order to receive WMI events, DMI matching > is used to whitelist the models which need it. > > [1] https://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/libsmbios-devel/2015-July/000612.html > > Signed-off-by: Michał Kępień <kernel@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx> -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
