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i8k: Stop reading SMM BIOS version during driver probe
authorGuenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Sat, 14 Dec 2013 17:30:20 +0000 (09:30 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 19 Dec 2013 00:47:05 +0000 (16:47 -0800)
commite551b15250bfb25ed9a136496e8bfde921194ea1
tree70539f3a4fc8117c16b3f274f89478946c1305d6tree | snapshot
parent26d093821f41030feee88e0150fbfb5550e8edcecommit | diff
i8k: Stop reading SMM BIOS version during driver probe

This doesn't work on Studio, XPS, Vostro, and Precision laptops,
and it doesn't provide any value except to cause confusion when
it does not work. Drop it and always use DMI BIOS version instead.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/char/i8k.c diff | blob | history
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