linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] platform/x86/dell-laptop: Add another Dell laptop to the DMI whitelist

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Date:	Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:57:35 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de>
Cc:	Erik Andren <erik.andren@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] platform/x86/dell-laptop: Add another Dell laptop
	to the DMI whitelist

On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 04:47:10PM +0100, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> Definitely not only this one. E.g. my Inspiron 8000 (P3/700) has (dmidecode):
> 
> Handle 0x0300, DMI type 3, 13 bytes
> Chassis Information
>         Manufacturer: Dell Computer Corporation
>         Type: Portable
> 
> which, if "Portable" happens to be "8", means that it would match.

8 should be portable, yes. 9 would be laptop (and 10 notebook), but I 
haven't seen any examples of those in Dells.

> So:
> - do all older matching machines grok this?

The dcdbas call should fail if they don't, so I think we're ok.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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