linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] RFC: platform/x86: wmi: Fix check for method instance number

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Date:   Sun, 6 Aug 2017 19:10:12 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:     Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        David Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>, Chun-Yi Lee <jlee@...e.com>,
        Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>,
        acpi4asus-user <acpi4asus-user@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        Oleksij Rempel <linux@...pel-privat.de>,
        João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@...il.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: platform/x86: wmi: Fix check for method instance number

On Sun, Aug 6, 2017 at 6:35 PM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 July 2017 22:24:20 Pali Rohár wrote:
>> On Wednesday 05 July 2017 21:30:35 David Airlie wrote:

>> > > On Saturday 17 June 2017 18:47:54 Pali Rohár wrote:
>> > > > > So problematic drivers which use instance=1 without any
>> > > > > comments
>> > > > > are:
>> > > > >   acer-wmi
>> > > > >   asus-wmi
>> > > > >   mxm-wmi


> Hi! For mxm-wmi I found this document:
> https://lekensteyn.nl/files/docs/mxm-2.1-software-spec.pdf
>
> On page numbered 26 (resp. in PDF page 31) is information about WMI
> GUID {F6CB5C3C-9CAE-4EBD-B577-931EA32A2CC0} interface and there is
> written that instance count = 1.
>
> // Methods GUID {F6CB5C3C-9CAE-4ebd-B577-931EA32A2CC0}
> 0x3C, 0x5C, 0xCB, 0xF6, 0xAE, 0x9C, 0xbd, 0x4e, 0xB5, 0x77, 0x93,
> 0x1E, 0xA3, 0x2A, 0x2C, 0xC0,
> 0x4D, 0x58,    // Object ID “MX” = method “WMMX”
> 1,             // Instance Count
> 0x02,          // Flags (WMIACPI_REGFLAG_METHOD)
>
> And ACPI method for handling this WMI call does not check Arg0 and Arg1
> at all.
>
> So... Andy, Darren, any objections for following patch which changes
> instance number from one to zero?

No objections from me! Just put enough explanation into commit message.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko