linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] platform/x86: wmi: Mark GUID-based WMI interface as deprecated

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Message-ID: <c56349d2-594a-bba0-3e88-40125fca3589@infradead.org>
Date:   Mon, 24 Apr 2023 20:08:11 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>, hdegoede@...hat.com,
        markgross@...nel.org
Cc:     corbet@....net, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] platform/x86: wmi: Mark GUID-based WMI interface
 as deprecated



On 4/24/23 15:29, Armin Wolf wrote:
> The WMI driver core supports a more mordern bus-based interface for
> interacting with WMI devices. The older GUID-based interface depends
> on each WMI GUID and notification id being unique on a given system,
> which turned out is not the case.
> Mark the older interface as deprecated since new WMI drivers should
> use the bus-based interface to avoid this issues.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c | 12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>

thanks.
-- 
~Randy