linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] platform/x86: wmi: Prepare for future changes

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Message-Id: <176346053571.25792.7559691740634950169.b4-ty@linux.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:08:55 +0200
From: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
To: viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, brauner@...nel.org, hansg@...nel.org, 
 Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>
Cc: superm1@...nel.org, jack@...e.cz, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] platform/x86: wmi: Prepare for future changes

On Tue, 11 Nov 2025 14:11:21 +0100, Armin Wolf wrote:

> After over a year of reverse engineering, i am finally ready to
> introduce support for WMI-ACPI marshaling inside the WMI driver core.
> Since the resulting patch series is quite large, i am planning to
> submit the necessary patches as three separate patch series.
> 
> This is supposed to be the first of the three patch series. Its main
> purpose is to prepare the WMI driver core for the upcoming changes.
> The first patch fixes an issue inside the nls utf16 to utf8 conversion
> code, while the next two patches fix some minor issues inside the WMI
> driver core itself. The last patch finally moves the code of the WMI
> driver core into a separate repository to allow for future additions
> without cluttering the main directory.
> 
> [...]


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

The list of commits applied:
[1/4] fs/nls: Fix utf16 to utf8 conversion
      commit: 25524b6190295577e4918c689644451365e6466d
[2/4] platform/x86: wmi: Use correct type when populating ACPI objects
      commit: c209195a2a4ad920ff481b56628ca942d62e01b1
[3/4] platform/x86: wmi: Remove extern keyword from prototypes
      commit: 32e3fee88a4ac183541b478f5bc94084ea76436c
[4/4] platform/x86: wmi: Move WMI core code into a separate directory
      commit: e2c1b56f3dfa014128e775e898774c0356e3ff05

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