On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:13:12PM -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote: > The Dell SMBIOS WMI interface will fail for some more complex calls unless > a WMI hotfix has been included. Most platforms have this fix available in > a maintenance BIOS release. In the case the driver is loaded on a > platform without this fix, disable the userspace interface. > > A hotfix indicator is present in the dell-wmi-descriptor that represents > whether or not more complex calls will work properly. > > "Simple" calls such as those used by dell-laptop and dell-wmi will continue > to work properly so dell-smbios-wmi should not be blocked from binding and > being used as the dell-smbios dispatcher. > > Suggested-by: Girish Prakash <girish.prakash@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@xxxxxxxx> Queued up, thanks Mario. -- Darren Hart VMware Open Source Technology Center
