linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] platform/x86: wmi: Add driver

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Message-ID: <8a6e955e-1829-404a-a962-32dcbacd53cc@redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 13:48:08 +0200
From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>, ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com
Cc: corbet@....net, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] platform/x86: wmi: Add driver_override support

Hi,

On 6/20/24 9:42 PM, Armin Wolf wrote:
> This patch series add support for using the driver_override sysfs
> attribute with WMI devices. The reason for this is that there will
> exist a couple of generic WMI drivers in the future for allowing
> driver developers to directly access the underlying WMI device.
> 
> Since those generic WMI drivers do not have an ID table, the
> driver_override mechanism is used to bind them to WMI devices.
> 
> Armin Wolf (2):
>   platform/x86: wmi: Add driver_override support
>   platform/x86: wmi: Add bus ABI documentation

Thanks, the series looks good to me:

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

for the series.

Regards,

Hans

> 
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-wmi | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  MAINTAINERS                             |  1 +
>  drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c              | 33 +++++++++++
>  include/linux/wmi.h                     |  4 ++
>  4 files changed, 117 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-wmi
> 
> --
> 2.39.2
>