On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 7:59 AM, Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > This splits up the dell-smbios driver into two drivers: > * dell-smbios > * dell-smbios-smm > > dell-smbios can operate with multiple different dispatcher drivers to > perform SMBIOS operations. > > Also modify the interface that dell-laptop and dell-wmi use align to this > model more closely. Rather than a single global buffer being allocated > for all drivers, each driver will allocate and be responsible for it's own > buffer. The pointer will be passed to the calling function and each > dispatcher driver will then internally copy it to the proper location to > perform it's call. > config DELL_SMBIOS > tristate > + depends on DELL_SMBIOS_SMM > + If the above dependency is true (which I'm quite sure not) this split should never happen. > +config DELL_SMBIOS_SMM > + tristate "Dell SMBIOS calling interface (SMM implementation)" > + depends on DCDBAS > + default DCDBAS > + select DELL_SMBIOS > ---help--- > + This provides an implementation for the Dell SMBIOS calling interface > + communicated over SMI/SMM. > > + If you have a Dell computer from <=2017 you should say Y or M here. > + If you aren't sure and this module doesn't work for your computer > + it just won't load. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
