Re: dell_smbios in 4.15 and keyboard backlight

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On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 21:09 +0100, Pali Rohár wrote:
> On Friday 23 February 2018 21:40:56 Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Fri, 2018-02-23 at 19:19 +0000, Mario.Limonciello@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Marco d'Itri [mailto:md@xxxxxxxx]
> > > > Sent: Friday, February 23, 2018 1:06 PM
> > > > To: Limonciello, Mario <Mario_Limonciello@xxxxxxxx>
> > > > Cc: pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx
> > > > Subject: Re: dell_smbios in 4.15 and keyboard backlight
> > > > 
> > > > On Feb 23, Mario Limonciello <superm1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Can you please email me on mario.limonciello@xxxxxxxx for this
> > > > > topic?
> > > > > 
> > > > > I would be interested to know do you have dell-smbios-smm or
> > > > > dell-smbios-wmi not loading or compiling?
> > > > 
> > > > Oops... The new modules have not been enabled yet by the Debian
> > > > kernel
> > > > team, so this explains why I could not find them.
> > > > Thank you for your help, I will get back to you if I will still
> > > > have
> > > > troubles with the new kernel.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > If you don't mind I'm going to CC this to the mailing list for
> > > discussion.  I think
> > > you identified a valid config problem.
> > > 
> > > Andy, Darren,
> > > 
> > > Marco (CC'ed) privately emailed Pali and I to discuss an issue
> > > that
> > > dell-laptop
> > > wasn't working properly for him and dell-smbios couldn't find a
> > > backend.
> > > 
> > > I thought at first it was an issue of the race condition recently
> > > discussed but
> > > it's actually a case that the distro kernel he's using compiled:
> > > 
> > > DELL_SMBIOS
> > > DELL_LAPTOP
> > > 
> > > But didn't select DELL_SMBIOS_WMI or DELL_SMBIOS_SMM.
> > 
> > Distros have to enable whatever they want to.
> 
> But this combination of options is invalid and does not make sense.
> 

Perhaps, you can explain this to Torvalds then?

https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/11/18/257

-- 
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy



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