Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:05:43 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Mike Waychison <mikew@google.com>, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com>,
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        Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com>, San Mehat <san@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 11/12] driver: Google EFI SMI
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> > I don't know if there is a good way to have this guy autoloaded, but
> > that's probably fine. We will likely compile it in as a built-in or
> > adjust our userland to have the module loaded.  We use it on all
> > machines we've been building for the last 4-5 years, and a table of
> > device IDs would just contain a list of a bunch of parts that aren't
> > really google-specific.
> 
> What's wrong with using DMI strings?  Are there going to be that many
> different ones of them here?

If you've got them in the ACPI tables that's as good as DMI if not better
IMHO
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