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| author | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-11 08:27:49 +0000 |
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| committer | Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org> | 2024-04-11 08:27:49 +0000 |
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Adding upstream version 6.6.15.upstream/6.6.15
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..6ca58c8249 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later + +============== +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. + +.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/wmi.h + :internal: + +.. kernel-doc:: drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c + :export: |