RE: [PATCHv3 1/2] platform/x86: dell-sysman: remove match on www.dell.com

From: Wang, Crag
Date: Fri Oct 04 2024 - 10:30:50 EST


> But those old systems presumably still exist somewhere out there, right ?

Products with this driver have Dell System in place.

> And if they still exist then we do still want to support them, so I'm not sure why
> you think it is a good idea to drop this test ?

We can keep the check as it's harmless though the match should rely on Dell System
more than the URL, which is mainly for super older cases without Dell System.

> Adding the alienware match seems fine, dropping the URL match seems like a
> bad idea unless you are 100% sure that there are no systems out there which
> rely in this match to load dell-wmi-sysman.

I'll re-send with just the addition.

Crag