Re: [PATCH v6 0/9] Convert most Dell WMI drivers to use the new buffer-based API

[Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>]

Am 12.06.26 um 15:16 schrieb Ilpo Järvinen:

> On Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:34:44 +0200, Armin Wolf wrote:
>
>> The new buffer-based WMI API improves the compatibility between
>> different ACPI firmware implementations by performing marshalling/
>> unmarshalling of WMI buffers like the original Windows driver.
>>
>> Convert most Dell WMI drivers to use this new API. This also
>> removes all ACPI-related code from those drivers because the
>> new buffer-based WMI API uses abstract WMI buffer objects instead
>> of ACPI objects.
>>
>> [...]
>
> 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.

Thank you, i will send a follow-up patch for the dell-wmi-ddv driver later.

Thanks,
Armin Wolf

>
> The list of commits applied:
> [1/9] platform/x86: dell-descriptor: Use new buffer-based WMI API
>        commit: 0f2d6a308210caaa5e0ebf9c085d87f4a2c06bfa
> [2/9] platform/x86: dell-privacy: Use new buffer-based WMI API
>        commit: 1719340487e63da13f2ac25e488c72737a545772
> [3/9] platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Use new buffer-based WMI API
>        commit: 6f918e3d95c9b0b4e6a6881692a9b5f9bf0f36b0
> [4/9] platform/x86: dell-wmi-base: Use new buffer-based WMI API
>        commit: 982b0e683aa3b1d20b1512cde53207ba1c80e22b
> [5/9] platform/x86: dell-ddv: Use new buffer-based WMI API
>        commit: 7fced293bbd00ee8d20eaf4654849ac9ff332973
> [6/9] hwmon: (dell-smm) Use new buffer-based WMI API
>        commit: ab1eb37dd63ff3555e4f98918f1bd3498522f765
> [7/9] platform/wmi: Make wmi_bus_class const
>        commit: b79ad5e8ba5cfda93a83e0cf71d4743829cc9f83
> [8/9] platform/wmi: Make sysfs attributes const
>        commit: c3cbac4be03d769571f32e7f27241b2c58f722f5
> [9/9] modpost: Handle malformed WMI GUID strings
>        commit: 3429ae7b2f02a4a6ad40d36ee06641d433d75a1b
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