linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix attribute name usage for non-compliant items

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Message-Id: <174773611857.1880.17914235275899520904.b4-ty@linux.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 13:15:18 +0300
From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
To: Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@...ebb.ca>
Cc: hdegoede@...hat.com, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix attribute name usage
 for non-compliant items

On Mon, 19 May 2025 20:50:18 -0400, Mark Pearson wrote:

> A few, quite rare, WMI attributes have names that are not compatible with
> filenames, e.g. "Intel VT for Directed I/O (VT-d)".
> For these cases the '/' gets replaced with '\' for display, but doesn't
> get switched again when doing the WMI access.
> 
> Fix this by keeping the original attribute name and using that for sending
> commands to the BIOS
> 
> [...]


Thank you for your contribution, it has been applied to my local
review-ilpo-fixes branch. Note it will show up in the public
platform-drivers-x86/review-ilpo-fixes branch only once I've pushed my
local branch there, which might take a while.

The list of commits applied:
[1/1] platform/x86: think-lmi: Fix attribute name usage for non-compliant items
      commit: 8508427a6e21c1ef01ae4c9f4e2675fc99deb949

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