Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dell-smbios-base: Extends support to Alienware products

[Pali Rohár]

On Thursday 31 October 2024 12:40:24 Kurt Borja wrote:
> Fixes the following error:
> 
> dell_smbios: Unable to run on non-Dell system
> 
> Which is triggered after dell-wmi driver fails to initialize on
> Alienware systems, as it depends on dell-smbios.
> 
> This effectively extends dell-wmi, dell-smbios and dcdbas support to
> Alienware devices, that might share some features of the SMBIOS intereface
> calling interface with other Dell products.
> 
> Tested on an Alienware X15 R1.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Pali Rohár <pali@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> v2:
>  - Commit message reflects Alienware devices may not necessarily support
>    the SMBIOS interface
>  - Commit message now has "Tested on"
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-base.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-base.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-base.c
> index 73e41eb69..01c72b91a 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-base.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-base.c
> @@ -576,6 +576,7 @@ static int __init dell_smbios_init(void)
>  	int ret, wmi, smm;
>  
>  	if (!dmi_find_device(DMI_DEV_TYPE_OEM_STRING, "Dell System", NULL) &&
> +	    !dmi_find_device(DMI_DEV_TYPE_OEM_STRING, "Alienware", NULL) &&
>  	    !dmi_find_device(DMI_DEV_TYPE_OEM_STRING, "www.dell.com", NULL)) {
>  		pr_err("Unable to run on non-Dell system\n");
>  		return -ENODEV;
> -- 
> 2.47.0
>