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| -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). |