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Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 15:06:37 +0100
From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
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On Mon, Jan 08, 2024 at 02:22:09PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Greg,
> 
> 
> Am 05.01.24 um 17:36 schrieb Hans de Goede:
> 
> > On 12/24/23 23:07, Pali Rohár wrote:
> > > On Sunday 24 December 2023 22:36:22 Hans de Goede wrote:
> > > > Unfortunately the SMOxxxx ACPI device does not contain the i2c-address
> > > > of the accelerometer. So a DMI product-name to address mapping table
> > > > is used.
> > > > 
> > > > At support to have the kernel probe for the i2c-address for models
> > > > which are not on the list.
> > > > 
> > > > The new probing code sits behind a new probe_i2c_addr module parameter,
> > > > which is disabled by default because probing might be dangerous.
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
> > > 
> > > I would really like to hear Dell opinion about this change, and if there
> > > is really no way to get i2c address. Could you ask Dell people about it?
> > > Always it is better to use official / vendor provided steps of hardware
> > > detection, instead of inventing something new / own which would be there
> > > for a long time...
> > 
> > Unfortunately I no longer have any contacts inside Dell for
> > this and given Dell's non response in the original thread
> > which started this I'm not hopeful for help from Dell here.
> 
> Unfortunately, since Mario Limonciello left Dell and works at AMD now,
> despite adding Dell.Client.Kernel@dell.com to Cc: I never received a reply
> from them. Do you have any contacts?

I do not, sorry.