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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-06-19 21:00:37 +0000
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@@ -93,4 +93,7 @@ _WED ACPI method
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Used to retrieve additional WMI event data, its single parameter is a integer
-holding the notification ID of the event.
+holding the notification ID of the event. This method should be evaluated every
+time an ACPI notification is received, since some ACPI implementations use a
+queue to store WMI event data items. This queue will overflow after a couple
+of WMI events are received without retrieving the associated WMI event data.