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| author | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2024-11-11 12:16:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org> | 2024-11-11 12:16:33 +0100 |
| commit | 5516200c466f92954551406ea641376963c43a92 (patch) | |
| tree | 4d9814bad59490d0cde3ce014a8ae08e9a8672db /Documentation/driver-api | |
| parent | 9b47364fd75b5494b716857af62737cdd1bca1b8 (diff) | |
| parent | 2d5404caa8c7bb5c4e0435f94b28834ae5456623 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'v6.12-rc7' into __tmp-hansg-linux-tags_media_atomisp_6_13_1
Linux 6.12-rc7
* tag 'v6.12-rc7': (1909 commits)
Linux 6.12-rc7
filemap: Fix bounds checking in filemap_read()
i2c: designware: do not hold SCL low when I2C_DYNAMIC_TAR_UPDATE is not set
mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum
ocfs2: remove entry once instead of null-ptr-dereference in ocfs2_xa_remove()
signal: restore the override_rlimit logic
fs/proc: fix compile warning about variable 'vmcore_mmap_ops'
ucounts: fix counter leak in inc_rlimit_get_ucounts()
selftests: hugetlb_dio: check for initial conditions to skip in the start
mm: fix docs for the kernel parameter ``thp_anon=``
mm/damon/core: avoid overflow in damon_feed_loop_next_input()
mm/damon/core: handle zero schemes apply interval
mm/damon/core: handle zero {aggregation,ops_update} intervals
mm/mlock: set the correct prev on failure
objpool: fix to make percpu slot allocation more robust
mm/page_alloc: keep track of free highatomic
bcachefs: Fix UAF in __promote_alloc() error path
bcachefs: Change OPT_STR max to be 1 less than the size of choices array
bcachefs: btree_cache.freeable list fixes
bcachefs: check the invalid parameter for perf test
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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst index 6ca58c8249e5..4e8dbdb1fc67 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst @@ -7,12 +7,11 @@ WMI Driver API The WMI driver core supports a more modern bus-based interface for interacting with WMI devices, and an older GUID-based interface. The latter interface is considered to be deprecated, so new WMI drivers should generally avoid it since -it has some issues with multiple WMI devices and events sharing the same GUIDs -and/or notification IDs. The modern bus-based interface instead maps each -WMI device to a :c:type:`struct wmi_device <wmi_device>`, so it supports -WMI devices sharing GUIDs and/or notification IDs. Drivers can then register -a :c:type:`struct wmi_driver <wmi_driver>`, which will be bound to compatible -WMI devices by the driver core. +it has some issues with multiple WMI devices sharing the same GUID. +The modern bus-based interface instead maps each WMI device to a +:c:type:`struct wmi_device <wmi_device>`, so it supports WMI devices sharing the +same GUID. Drivers can then register a :c:type:`struct wmi_driver <wmi_driver>` +which will be bound to compatible WMI devices by the driver core. .. kernel-doc:: include/linux/wmi.h :internal: |
