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dell-smbios is depended on by dell-laptop and that has this same table + some extra entries for chassis-type 30, 31 and 32. Since dell-laptop will already auto-load based on the DMI table in there (which also is more complete) and since dell-laptop will then bring in the dell-smbios module, the only scenario I can think of where this DMI table inside dell-smbios-smm.c is useful is if users have the dell-laptop module disabled and they want to use the sysfs interface offered by dell-smbios-smm.c. But that is such a corner case, even requiring a custom kernel build, that it does not weigh up against having this duplicate table, which as the current state already shows can only grow stale. Users who do hit this corner-case can always explicitly modprobe / insmod the module. Cc: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@outlook.com> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210802120734.36732-1-hdegoede@redhat.com
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
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requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.