Skip to content
Commit 134038b0 authored by Mario Limonciello's avatar Mario Limonciello Committed by Hans de Goede
Browse files

platform/x86: wmi: Allow duplicate GUIDs for drivers that use struct wmi_driver



The WMI subsystem in the kernel currently tracks WMI devices by
a GUID string not by ACPI device.  The GUID used by the `wmi-bmof`
module however is available from many devices on nearly every machine.

This originally was thought to be a bug, but as it happens on most
machines it is a design mistake.  It has been fixed by tying an ACPI
device to the driver with struct wmi_driver. So drivers that have
moved over to struct wmi_driver can actually support multiple
instantiations of a GUID without any problem.

Add an allow list into wmi.c for GUIDs that the drivers that are known
to use struct wmi_driver.  The list is populated with `wmi-bmof` right
now. The additional instances of that in sysfs with be suffixed with -%d

Signed-off-by: default avatarMario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220829201500.6341-1-mario.limonciello@amd.com


Reviewed-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
parent a2bdf10c
Loading
Loading
Loading
Loading
0% Loading or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Please to comment