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Date:   Mon, 10 May 2021 14:12:40 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
        "David E. Box" <david.e.box@linux.intel.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>,
        Rajneesh Bhardwaj <irenic.rajneesh@gmail.com>,
        Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5.10 108/299] platform/x86: intel_pmc_core: Dont use
 global pmcdev in quirks
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Hi!

> From: David E. Box <david.e.box@linux.intel.com>
>=20
> [ Upstream commit c9f86d6ca6b5e23d30d16ade4b9fff5b922a610a ]
>=20
> The DMI callbacks, used for quirks, currently access the PMC by getting
> the address a global pmc_dev struct. Instead, have the callbacks set a
> global quirk specific variable. In probe, after calling dmi_check_system(=
),
> pass pmc_dev to a function that will handle each quirk if its variable
> condition is met. This allows removing the global pmc_dev later.

This does not fix a bug.. it is preparation for further cleanups that
are not queued to 5.10 stable. So this should not be in 5.10 either.

Best regards,
								Pavel

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