linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] x86: Easy way of detecting MS Surface 3

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Date:   Mon, 16 Mar 2020 17:33:02 +0200
From:   Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>,
        Cezary Rojewski <cezary.rojewski@...el.com>,
        Pierre-Louis Bossart <pierre-louis.bossart@...ux.intel.com>,
        Liam Girdwood <liam.r.girdwood@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jie Yang <yang.jie@...ux.intel.com>,
        alsa-devel@...a-project.org, alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] x86: Easy way of detecting MS Surface 3

Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com> writes:

> While working on RTC regression, I noticed that we are using the same DMI check
> over and over in the drivers for MS Surface 3 platform. This series dedicated
> for making it easier in the same way how it's done for Apple machines.

[...]

>   x86/quirks: Introduce hpet_dev_print_force_hpet_address() helper
>   x86/quirks: Join string literals back

These two don't seem to be related to the Surface 3 cause of the rest of
the patchset, or am I missing something?

Regards,
--
Alex