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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-08-07 13:11:22 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-08-07 13:11:22 +0000
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parentAdding upstream version 6.8.12. (diff)
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Adding upstream version 6.9.7.upstream/6.9.7
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -93,4 +93,7 @@ _WED ACPI method
----------------
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.