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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 09/14] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Introduce dispatcher for SMM calls
    On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 7:59 AM, Mario Limonciello
    <mario.limonciello@dell.com> wrote:
    > This splits up the dell-smbios driver into two drivers:
    > * dell-smbios
    > * dell-smbios-smm
    >
    > dell-smbios can operate with multiple different dispatcher drivers to
    > perform SMBIOS operations.
    >
    > Also modify the interface that dell-laptop and dell-wmi use align to this
    > model more closely. Rather than a single global buffer being allocated
    > for all drivers, each driver will allocate and be responsible for it's own
    > buffer. The pointer will be passed to the calling function and each
    > dispatcher driver will then internally copy it to the proper location to
    > perform it's call.

    > config DELL_SMBIOS
    > tristate

    > + depends on DELL_SMBIOS_SMM
    > +

    If the above dependency is true (which I'm quite sure not) this split
    should never happen.

    > +config DELL_SMBIOS_SMM
    > + tristate "Dell SMBIOS calling interface (SMM implementation)"
    > + depends on DCDBAS
    > + default DCDBAS
    > + select DELL_SMBIOS
    > ---help---
    > + This provides an implementation for the Dell SMBIOS calling interface
    > + communicated over SMI/SMM.
    >
    > + If you have a Dell computer from <=2017 you should say Y or M here.
    > + If you aren't sure and this module doesn't work for your computer
    > + it just won't load.


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    With Best Regards,
    Andy Shevchenko

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