Re: Dell Inc. XPS 13 9343/0TM99H fails to boot v4.16-rc5

[Darren Hart]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 03:17:57PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:07 PM, Dominik Brodowski
> <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I'm awfully sorry, but this patch doesn't solve the issue.
> > CONFIG_ACPI_WMI=y was/is set, but still enabling CONFIG_DELL_SMBIOS_WMI=y
> > causes a very-early crash of v4.16-rc5. In fact, so early that the normal
> > boot messages never show up on the screen...
> 
> Hmm. My xps13 works fine, but it's the 9350 version so not the same machine.
> 
> But it does sound like that commit 25d47027e10 ("platform/x86:
> dell-smbios: Link all dell-smbios-* modules together") should just be
> reverted. It has clearly caused a lot more pain than it fixed.

Unfortunately, yes. This will re-instate the race condition it "fixed".
I'll work with Mario to fix this properly in 4.17, preferably in a way
that we can apply to stable. Pending an "oops, nevermind, the patch
works" from Dominik by tomorrow morning, I'll submit the pull request to
revert dell-smbios changes back to and including 25d47027e10.

Apologies for the noise on this one Linus, it got away from me.

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Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center