Re: [PATCH 0/2] platform/x86: msi-wmi-platform: Fix autoloading

[Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>]

Am 10.11.25 um 18:14 schrieb Ilpo Järvinen:

> On Mon, 10 Nov 2025, Antheas Kapenekakis wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 at 12:13, Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> As already noted by Antheas Kapenekakis back in May, the
>>> msi-wmi-platform driver fails to automatically load on MSI Claw
>>> devices. Back then i suspected an issue with the device firmware,
>>> however i just found out that i made a silly mistake when specifying
>>> the GUID string of the driver, preventing the WMI driver core from
>>> matching it to its WMI device.
>>> Additionally i noticed that said GUID was copied from the Windows
>>> driver samples, meaning that it might be shared across different
>>> vendors. Because of this we have to prevent this driver from loading
>>> on non-MSI devices.
>>>
>>> Compile-tested only.
>> Works great. Module loads normally without intervention from userspace.
>>
>> I could not find an online reference for our discussion so I omit the close tag.
>>
>> Replying to the cover applies to all patches if my understanding is correct.
>>
>> Reported-by: Antheas Kapenekakis <lkml@antheas.dev>
>> Tested-by: Antheas Kapenekakis <lkml@antheas.dev>
> Thanks, I've added these tags to the commits.
>
Thank you both for the quick reply :)

Thanks,
Armin Wolf