Re: dell_smbios in 4.15 and keyboard backlight

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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...


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