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

From: Kurt Borja
Date: Wed Jun 11 2025 - 17:30:57 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 6.15.x
Signed-off-by: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@xxxxxxxxx>
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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.
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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",

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