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The Dell SMBIOS WMI interface will fail for some more complex calls unless a WMI hotfix has been included. Most platforms have this fix available in a maintenance BIOS release. In the case the driver is loaded on a platform without this fix, disable the userspace interface. A hotfix indicator is present in the dell-wmi-descriptor that represents whether or not more complex calls will work properly. "Simple" calls such as those used by dell-laptop and dell-wmi will continue to work properly so dell-smbios-wmi should not be blocked from binding and being used as the dell-smbios dispatcher. Suggested-by: Girish Prakash <girish.prakash@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.