linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: acer-wmi: Stop using ACPI bitmap for platform profile choices

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Message-Id: <175639807798.20700.11953577105955162977.b4-ty@linux.intel.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2025 19:21:17 +0300
From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
To: jlee@...e.com, Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>
Cc: hansg@...nel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, lynne@...e.city
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: acer-wmi: Stop using ACPI bitmap for
 platform profile choices

On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 22:40:07 +0200, Armin Wolf wrote:

> It turns out that the platform firmware on some models does not return
> valid data when reading the bitmap of supported platform profiles.
> This prevents the driver from loading on said models, even when the
> platform profile interface itself works.
> 
> Fix this by stop using said bitmap until we have figured out how
> the OEM software itself detects available platform profiles.
> 
> [...]


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: acer-wmi: Stop using ACPI bitmap for platform profile choices
      commit: b0908e03fdd488a5ffd5b80d86dcfc77207464e7

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