On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 09:32:55PM +0100, Pali Rohár wrote: > On Friday 23 February 2018 22:14:17 Andy Shevchenko wrote: > > 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: ... > > > > > 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 > > That is something different. Linus wrote: > You add new drivers and then default them to "on". > > But here we have a driver dell-laptop.ko which needs for proper work Correct. We have a dependency issue we need to address. Reading further... -- Darren Hart VMware Open Source Technology Center