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Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] dell-wmi: enable receiving WMI events on Dell Vostro V131

From Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] dell-wmi: enable receiving WMI events on Dell Vostro V131
Date 2016-02-29 14:00 +0100
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On Wednesday 24 February 2016 08:20:13 Michał Kępień wrote:
> On some laptop models (e.g. Dell Vostro V131), WMI events are not
> generated until a specific SMBIOS request is issued to register an event
> listener [1].  As there seems to be no ACPI method or SMBIOS request to
> determine without possible side effects whether a given machine needs to
> issue this SMBIOS request in order to receive WMI events, DMI matching
> is used to whitelist the models which need it.
> 
> [1] https://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/libsmbios-devel/2015-July/000612.html
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl>

Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>

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[PATCH v4 0/5] Process Dell Instant Launch hotkey on Vostro V131 and Inspiron M5110 Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2016-02-24 08:20 +0100
  [PATCH v4 1/5] dell-laptop: move dell_smi_error() to dell-smbios Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2016-02-24 08:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] dell-laptop: move dell_smi_error() to dell-smbios Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 14:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] dell-laptop: move dell_smi_error() to dell-smbios Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2016-02-29 21:30 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] dell-laptop: move dell_smi_error() to dell-smbios Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 21:30 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] dell-laptop: move dell_smi_error() to dell-smbios Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2016-02-29 21:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] dell-laptop: move dell_smi_error() to dell-smbios Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2016-03-01 00:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] dell-laptop: move dell_smi_error() to dell-smbios Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2016-03-02 12:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 1/5] dell-laptop: move dell_smi_error() to dell-smbios Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-03-03 12:40 +0100
  [PATCH v4 5/5] dell-wmi: support Dell Inspiron M5110 Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2016-02-24 08:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4 5/5] dell-wmi: support Dell Inspiron M5110 Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 14:10 +0100
  [PATCH v4 3/5] dell-wmi: enable receiving WMI events on Dell Vostro V131 Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2016-02-24 08:20 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4 3/5] dell-wmi: enable receiving WMI events on Dell  Vostro V131 Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 14:00 +0100
  [PATCH v4 2/5] dell-smbios: rename dell_smi_error() to dell_smbios_error() Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2016-02-24 08:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] dell-smbios: rename dell_smi_error() to  dell_smbios_error() Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 14:00 +0100
  [PATCH v4 4/5] dell-wmi: properly process Dell Instant Launch hotkey Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2016-02-24 08:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] dell-wmi: properly process Dell Instant Launch  hotkey Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 14:10 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] dell-wmi: properly process Dell Instant Launch  hotkey Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2016-02-29 21:40 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] dell-wmi: properly process Dell Instant Launch hotkey Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 21:40 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] dell-wmi: properly process Dell Instant Launch  hotkey Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2016-02-29 21:50 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] dell-wmi: properly process Dell Instant Launch hotkey Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> - 2016-02-29 22:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] dell-wmi: properly process Dell Instant Launch  hotkey Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2016-03-01 00:10 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] dell-wmi: properly process Dell Instant Launch  hotkey Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2016-03-02 13:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] dell-wmi: properly process Dell Instant Launch  hotkey Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2016-03-03 18:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] dell-wmi: properly process Dell Instant Launch  hotkey Michał Kępień <kernel@kempniu.pl> - 2016-03-03 19:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] dell-wmi: properly process Dell Instant Launch  hotkey Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2016-03-03 21:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v4 4/5] dell-wmi: properly process Dell Instant Launch  hotkey Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org> - 2016-03-01 00:10 +0100

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