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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-10-06 11:11:01 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2024-10-06 11:11:01 -0700
commitc8d9f2c7aa599dcebab63400f7eaa767629faf04 (patch)
tree48f13fb050d25f8e80b4f3a9cd5e5444b81fcf42 /Documentation
parent4563243edeeb3dc17355a80ec16bbfdc675702cb (diff)
parent2fae3129c0c08e72b1fe93e61fd8fd203252094a (diff)
Merge tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.12-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86
Pull x86 platform driver fixes from Hans de Goede: - Intel PMC fix for suspend/resume issues on some Sky and Kaby Lake laptops - Intel Diamond Rapids hw-id additions - Documentation and MAINTAINERS fixes - Some other small fixes * tag 'platform-drivers-x86-v6.12-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86: platform/x86: x86-android-tablets: Fix use after free on platform_device_register() errors platform/x86: wmi: Update WMI driver API documentation platform/x86: dell-ddv: Fix typo in documentation platform/x86: dell-sysman: add support for alienware products platform/x86/intel: power-domains: Add Diamond Rapids support platform/x86: ISST: Add Diamond Rapids to support list platform/x86:intel/pmc: Disable ACPI PM Timer disabling on Sky and Kaby Lake platform/x86: dell-laptop: Do not fail when encountering unsupported batteries MAINTAINERS: Update Intel In Field Scan(IFS) entry platform/x86: ISST: Fix the KASAN report slab-out-of-bounds bug
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst11
-rw-r--r--Documentation/wmi/devices/dell-wmi-ddv.rst4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst
index 6ca58c8249e5..4e8dbdb1fc67 100644
--- a/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst
+++ b/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst
@@ -7,12 +7,11 @@ WMI Driver API
The WMI driver core supports a more modern bus-based interface for interacting
with WMI devices, and an older GUID-based interface. The latter interface is
considered to be deprecated, so new WMI drivers should generally avoid it since
-it has some issues with multiple WMI devices and events sharing the same GUIDs
-and/or notification IDs. The modern bus-based interface instead maps each
-WMI device to a :c:type:`struct wmi_device <wmi_device>`, so it supports
-WMI devices sharing GUIDs and/or notification IDs. Drivers can then register
-a :c:type:`struct wmi_driver <wmi_driver>`, which will be bound to compatible
-WMI devices by the driver core.
+it has some issues with multiple WMI devices sharing the same GUID.
+The modern bus-based interface instead maps each WMI device to a
+:c:type:`struct wmi_device <wmi_device>`, so it supports WMI devices sharing the
+same GUID. Drivers can then register a :c:type:`struct wmi_driver <wmi_driver>`
+which will be bound to compatible WMI devices by the driver core.
.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/wmi.h
:internal:
diff --git a/Documentation/wmi/devices/dell-wmi-ddv.rst b/Documentation/wmi/devices/dell-wmi-ddv.rst
index 2fcdfcf03327..e0c20af30948 100644
--- a/Documentation/wmi/devices/dell-wmi-ddv.rst
+++ b/Documentation/wmi/devices/dell-wmi-ddv.rst
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Introduction
============
Many Dell notebooks made after ~2020 support a WMI-based interface for
-retrieving various system data like battery temperature, ePPID, diagostic data
+retrieving various system data like battery temperature, ePPID, diagnostic data
and fan/thermal sensor data.
This interface is likely used by the `Dell Data Vault` software on Windows,
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ Reverse-Engineering the DDV WMI interface
4. Try to deduce the meaning of a certain WMI method by comparing the control
flow with other ACPI methods (_BIX or _BIF for battery related methods
for example).
-5. Use the built-in UEFI diagostics to view sensor types/values for fan/thermal
+5. Use the built-in UEFI diagnostics to view sensor types/values for fan/thermal
related methods (sometimes overwriting static ACPI data fields can be used
to test different sensor type values, since on some machines this data is
not reinitialized upon a warm reset).