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Message-ID: <549ba85b-9902-4fed-9f67-e3ebc3aec3ec@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 11:49:03 +0100
From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>, ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com
Cc: Dell.Client.Kernel@...l.com, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-privacy: Remove usage of
 wmi_has_guid()

Hi,

On 2/23/24 17:29, Armin Wolf wrote:
> The WMI driver core already takes care that the WMI driver is
> only bound to WMI devices with a matching GUID.
> 
> Remove the unnecessary call to wmi_has_guid(), which will always
> be true when the driver probes.
> 
> Tested on a Dell Inspiron 3505.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>

Thanks, patch looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>

Regards,

Hans



> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-privacy.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-privacy.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-privacy.c
> index 4d94603f7785..4b65e1655d42 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-privacy.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-privacy.c
> @@ -297,10 +297,6 @@ static int dell_privacy_wmi_probe(struct wmi_device *wdev, const void *context)
>  	struct key_entry *keymap;
>  	int ret, i, j;
> 
> -	ret = wmi_has_guid(DELL_PRIVACY_GUID);
> -	if (!ret)
> -		pr_debug("Unable to detect available Dell privacy devices!\n");
> -
>  	priv = devm_kzalloc(&wdev->dev, sizeof(*priv), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!priv)
>  		return -ENOMEM;
> --
> 2.39.2
>