ACK/CMT: [SRU][O][PATCH 0/1] Dell Alienware sysytem reports errors of dell_wmi_sysman and dell_smbios in demsg

Guoqing Jiang guoqing.jiang at canonical.com
Fri Oct 18 02:33:51 UTC 2024



On 10/17/24 21:19, En-Wei Wu wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2084808
>
> [Impact]
> A Dell Alienware system reports some error messages in dmesg after booting up:
> 1. dell_wmi_sysman: Unable to run on non-Dell system
> 2. dell_smbios: Unable to run on non-Dell system
>
> [Fix]
> Applying the following patch from linux-next fixes the issue:
> a561509b4187 platform/x86: dell-sysman: add support for alienware products

Seems the commit has been merged since 6.12-rc2.
Acked-by: Guoqing Jiang <guoqing.jiang at canonical.com>

Thanks,
Guoqing

> [Test Plan]
> 1. Boot to Ubuntu OS
> 2. Launch $ sudo dmesg
> 3. Check if the error messages are gone
>
> [Where problems could occur]
> May cause regression
>
> Crag Wang (1):
>    platform/x86: dell-sysman: add support for alienware products
>
>   drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/sysman.c | 1 +
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>




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