linux-kernel - [PATCH] Revert "platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Add G-Mode support to Alienware m16 R1"

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Message-Id: <20250611-m16-rev-v1-1-72d13bad03c9@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 18:30:40 -0300
From: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@...il.com>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>, 
 Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>, 
 Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, Dell.Client.Kernel@...l.com, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Cihan Ozakca <cozakca@...look.com>, 
 stable@...r.kernel.org, Kurt Borja <kuurtb@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Revert "platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Add G-Mode
 support to Alienware m16 R1"

This reverts commit 5ff79cabb23a2f14d2ed29e9596aec908905a0e6.

Although the Alienware m16 R1 AMD model supports G-Mode, it actually has
a lower power ceiling than plain "performance" profile, which results in
lower performance.

Reported-by: Cihan Ozakca <cozakca@...look.com>
Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org # 6.15.x
Signed-off-by: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@...il.com>
---
Hi all,

Contrary to (my) intuition, imitating Windows behavior actually results
in LOWER performance.

I was having second thoughts about this revert because users will notice
that "performance" not longer turns on the G-Mode key found in this
laptop. Some users may think this is actually a regression, but IMO
lower performance is worse.
---
 drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-wmax.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-wmax.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-wmax.c
index c42f9228b0b255fe962b735ac96486824e83945f..20ec122a9fe0571a1ecd2ccf630615564ab30481 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-wmax.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-wmax.c
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id awcc_dmi_table[] __initconst = {
 			DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Alienware"),
 			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Alienware m16 R1 AMD"),
 		},
-		.driver_data = &g_series_quirks,
+		.driver_data = &generic_quirks,
 	},
 	{
 		.ident = "Alienware m16 R2",

---
base-commit: 19272b37aa4f83ca52bdf9c16d5d81bdd1354494
change-id: 20250611-m16-rev-8109b82dee30
-- 
 ~ Kurt