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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-10-06 11:11:01 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2024-10-06 11:11:01 -0700 |
commit | c8d9f2c7aa599dcebab63400f7eaa767629faf04 (patch) | |
tree | 48f13fb050d25f8e80b4f3a9cd5e5444b81fcf42 /Documentation | |
parent | 4563243edeeb3dc17355a80ec16bbfdc675702cb (diff) | |
parent | 2fae3129c0c08e72b1fe93e61fd8fd203252094a (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.rst | 11 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/wmi/devices/dell-wmi-ddv.rst | 4 |
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). |