From: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
To: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>, james@equiv.tech
Cc: jdelvare@suse.com, linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/1] hwmon: (hp-wmi-sensors) Support autoloading
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 16:04:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d167915c-e55e-4c2b-b7dc-6f4bda2f3a34@roeck-us.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240318215732.322798-1-W_Armin@gmx.de>
On 3/18/24 14:57, Armin Wolf wrote:
> Currently, the hp-wmi-sensors driver needs to be loaded manually
> on supported machines. This however is unnecessary since the WMI
> id table can be used to support autoloading.
>
> However the driver might conflict with the hp-wmi driver since both
> seem to use the same WMI GUID for registering notify handler.
>
I have no idea how this is supposed to be handled.
wmi_install_notify_handler() is marked as deprecated,
suggesting that the entire driver structure may be outdated.
> I am thus submitting this patch as an RFC for now.
>
.... and, given the above, I have no idea what to do with it, sorry.
Guenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-18 23:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-18 21:57 Armin Wolf
2024-03-18 21:57 ` [RFC PATCH 1/1] hwmon: (hp-wmi-sensors) Add missing MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE() Armin Wolf
2024-03-18 23:04 ` Guenter Roeck [this message]
2024-03-19 5:47 ` [RFC 0/1] hwmon: (hp-wmi-sensors) Support autoloading James Seo
2024-03-19 13:00 ` Armin Wolf
2024-03-20 0:40 ` James Seo
2024-03-20 15:13 ` Armin Wolf
2024-03-20 20:11 ` James Seo
2024-03-20 22:09 ` Armin Wolf
2024-03-21 6:33 ` James Seo
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