The patch below does not apply to the 4.16-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to stable@vger.kernel.org.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
From 6ed66c3ce095ae65bbc976b5817c318653745736 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@dell.com Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 12:42:11 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] platform/x86: Kconfig: Fix dell-laptop dependency chain.
As reported by Randy Dunlap:
WARNING: unmet direct dependencies detected for DELL_SMBIOS Depends on [m]: X86 [=y] && X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES [=y] && (DCDBAS [=m] || DCDBAS [=m]=n) && (ACPI_WMI [=n] || ACPI_WMI [=n]=n) Selected by [y]:
- DELL_LAPTOP [=y] && X86 [=y] && X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES [=y]
&& DMI [=y] && BACKLIGHT_CLASS_DEVICE [=y] && (ACPI_VIDEO [=n] || ACPI_VIDEO [=n]=n) && (RFKILL [=n] || RFKILL [=n]=n) && SERIO_I8042 [=y]
Right now it's possible to set dell laptop to compile in but this causes dell-smbios to compile in which breaks if dcdbas is a module.
Dell laptop shouldn't select dell-smbios anymore, but depend on it.
Fixes: 32d7b19bad96 (platform/x86: dell-smbios: Resolve dependency error on DCDBAS) Reported-by: Randy Dunlap rdunlap@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello mario.limonciello@dell.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) dvhart@infradead.org
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig index 39d06dd1f63a..bc309c5327ff 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig @@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ config DELL_LAPTOP depends on ACPI_VIDEO || ACPI_VIDEO = n depends on RFKILL || RFKILL = n depends on SERIO_I8042 - select DELL_SMBIOS + depends on DELL_SMBIOS select POWER_SUPPLY select LEDS_CLASS select NEW_LEDS