linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell: avoid link error with modular ACPI

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Message-ID: <CAK8P3a1NwqyU+DRe=TK9PCnZetbQkragayW4oufV-_eTd+wd+Q@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:03:19 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@...l.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell: avoid link error with modular ACPI_SMI

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 7:36 PM,  <dvhart@...radead.org> wrote:
>
>
> On March 15, 2018 8:39:07 AM PDT, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>>The new DELL_LAPTOP dependencies allowed one configuration that should
>>not
>>have been possible, with DELL_SMBIOS_WMI built-in, but ACPI_SMI as a
>>module:
>
>
> Hi Arnd, do you have the latest changes from me? The
> platform-drivers-x86-v4.16-7 PR to Linus yesterday has a fix for
> the ACPI_WMI dependency. Linus merged it yesterday.

I wrote my patch based on yesterday's linux-next, which didn't
have the fix. Today's version has it, and looks good.

My approach was slightly different from yours, so I didn't
get a conflict when rebasing, but either one is sufficient.

     Arnd