Re: [PATCH v3 0/9] x86: Easy way of detecting MS Surface 3

On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 05:33:02PM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:

Andy Shevchenko andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com writes:

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While working on RTC regression, I noticed that we are using the same DMI check over and over in the drivers for MS Surface 3 platform. This series dedicated for making it easier in the same way how it's done for Apple machines.

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x86/quirks: Introduce hpet_dev_print_force_hpet_address() helper x86/quirks: Join string literals back

These two don't seem to be related to the Surface 3 cause of the rest of the patchset, or am I missing something?

No, they are not. I think it's suitable to have them in the bunch nevertheless.