Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell: avoid link error with modular ACPI_SMI

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Thu Mar 15 2018 - 16:03:28 EST


On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 7:36 PM, <dvhart@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On March 15, 2018 8:39:07 AM PDT, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> 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:
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> 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