Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] dell-wmi: enable receiving WMI events on Dell Vostro V131

[Pali RohÃr]

On Wednesday 24 February 2016 08:20:13 MichaÅ KÄpieÅ wrote:
> On some laptop models (e.g. Dell Vostro V131), WMI events are not
> generated until a specific SMBIOS request is issued to register an event
> listener [1].  As there seems to be no ACPI method or SMBIOS request to
> determine without possible side effects whether a given machine needs to
> issue this SMBIOS request in order to receive WMI events, DMI matching
> is used to whitelist the models which need it.
> 
> [1] https://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/libsmbios-devel/2015-July/000612.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: MichaÅ KÄpieÅ <kernel@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Pali RohÃr <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx>

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