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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>2024-11-11 12:16:33 +0100
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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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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: