On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 02:12:40PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > From: David E. Box <david.e.box@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > [ Upstream commit c9f86d6ca6b5e23d30d16ade4b9fff5b922a610a ] > > > > The DMI callbacks, used for quirks, currently access the PMC by getting > > the address a global pmc_dev struct. Instead, have the callbacks set a > > global quirk specific variable. In probe, after calling dmi_check_system(), > > pass pmc_dev to a function that will handle each quirk if its variable > > condition is met. This allows removing the global pmc_dev later. > > This does not fix a bug.. it is preparation for further cleanups that > are not queued to 5.10 stable. So this should not be in 5.10 either. I'll leave this for now, it will be helpful for later. thanks, greg k-h
