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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 09/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Introduce dispatcher for SMM calls
On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 7:59 AM, Mario Limonciello
<mario.limonciello@dell.com> wrote:
> This splits up the dell-smbios driver into two drivers:
> * dell-smbios
> * dell-smbios-smm
>
> dell-smbios can operate with multiple different dispatcher drivers to
> perform SMBIOS operations.
>
> Also modify the interface that dell-laptop and dell-wmi use align to this
> model more closely. Rather than a single global buffer being allocated
> for all drivers, each driver will allocate and be responsible for it's own
> buffer. The pointer will be passed to the calling function and each
> dispatcher driver will then internally copy it to the proper location to
> perform it's call.

> config DELL_SMBIOS
> tristate

> + depends on DELL_SMBIOS_SMM
> +

If the above dependency is true (which I'm quite sure not) this split
should never happen.

> +config DELL_SMBIOS_SMM
> + tristate "Dell SMBIOS calling interface (SMM implementation)"
> + depends on DCDBAS
> + default DCDBAS
> + select DELL_SMBIOS
> ---help---
> + This provides an implementation for the Dell SMBIOS calling interface
> + communicated over SMI/SMM.
>
> + If you have a Dell computer from <=2017 you should say Y or M here.
> + If you aren't sure and this module doesn't work for your computer
> + it just won't load.


--
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko

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