On Sat, 30 Jan 2016 10:13:09 -0800, Andy Lutomirski wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Darren Hart <[email protected]> wrote: > > If I understand this correctly, this is the first of 5 patches, and this > > one has > > some unanswered questions from Jean here. If this patch gets respun, the > > following are also impacted: > > > > dell-wmi: Stop storing pointers to DMI tables > > dell-wmi, dell-laptop: select DMI > > dell-wmi: Clean up hotkey table size check > > dell-wmi: Support new hotkeys on the XPS 13 9350 (Skylake) > > > > Is that correct? > > Not really. It's just the three patches here: > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.platform.x86.devel/8503 > > This patch (the dmi_walk error code one) is no longer really related. > Due to Jean's earlier comment about what happens if DMI isn't enabled > at all, I no longer propagate the error code from dmi_walk in > dell-wmi, so the error code won't have any effect. (Instead I just > warn and let the driver load in legacy mode, which matches the current > behavior.) > > I think the way to go is for the v3 "dell-wmi: DMI misuse fixes" > series to go in through your tree, and I'll hash out the error code > thing separately with Jean. > > Does that seem sensible?
Yes, I agree that this patch is independent from the dell-wmi patch series now. -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support
