linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] hwmon: (hp-wmi-sensors) Check if WMI event data exists

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Message-ID: <ea8adf37-9fe2-4a15-9666-e164c192bedb@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 20:42:02 +0200
From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>, Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>
Cc: james@...iv.tech, jlee@...e.com, corentin.chary@...il.com,
 luke@...nes.dev, matan@...alib.org, coproscefalo@...il.com,
 ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com, jdelvare@...e.com, rafael@...nel.org,
 lenb@...nel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] hwmon: (hp-wmi-sensors) Check if WMI event data
 exists

Hi Guenter,

On 9/4/24 8:38 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On 9/4/24 10:55, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> On 9/2/24 4:28 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>> On Sun, Sep 01, 2024 at 05:10:51AM +0200, Armin Wolf wrote:
>>>> The BIOS can choose to return no event data in response to a
>>>> WMI event, so the ACPI object passed to the WMI notify handler
>>>> can be NULL.
>>>>
>>>> Check for such a situation and ignore the event in such a case.
>>>>
>>>> Fixes: 23902f98f8d4 ("hwmon: add HP WMI Sensors driver")
>>>> Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>
>>>> Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
>>>
>>> Applied.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Unfortunately patch 2/5 touches the same part of the file,
>> so I cannot apply the rest of the series without first
>> bringing this patch into platform-drivers-x86/for-next .
>>
>> Guenter, can you provide an immutable branch/tag with
>> this patch on it; or drop this patch that I merge
>> the entire series through platform-drivers-x86/for-next ?
>>
> 
> Can you wait a couple of days ? Since this is a bug fix, I had
> planned to send a pull request either later today or; with that,
> the patch would be upstream.

Yes I can wait a couple of days, thank you.

Regards,

Hans