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From: Duarte Silva <duartejcsilva@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Problems evaluating WMI method
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 19:22:17 +0100
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On Wednesday 01 October 2008 18:55:29 Carlos Corbacho wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 September 2008 23:56:09 Duarte Silva wrote:
> > wmi_evaluate_method("C3A72B38-D3EF-42D3-8CBB-D5A57049F66D", 1, 1, &in,
> > &out);
> >
> > printk( KERN_INFO "QUERY %i\n", (u32)out.length);
> >
> > kfree(out.pointer);
> >
> > I get a output with a lenght of 24 and when I convert it to a acpi_object
> > I get type integer. Result in dmesg
> >
> > QUERY 24
>
> Ok, but what's the actual result?
>
> e.g.
>
> acpi_object *obj;
>
> wmi_evaluate_method(guid, 1, 1, &in, &out);
>
> obj = (union acpi_object *) out.pointer;
>
> printk(KERN_INFO "RESULT %i\n", obj->value);
>
> -Carlos

It's of type integer and the result is allways one. But it is possible, Iam in 
a 64 bits platform, so three ints are 24 bytes (8 * 3)
But the strange part is that the result is allways one, when it should be 
0x0300.