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From: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
To: "Michał Kępień" <kernel@kempniu.pl>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
	Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@gmail.com>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] dell-wmi: Process only one event on devices with interface version 0
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 14:49:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201512281449.10384@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151228134056.GC7540@eudyptula.hq.kempniu.pl>

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On Monday 28 December 2015 14:40:56 Michał Kępień wrote:
> > BIOS/ACPI on devices with WMI interface version 0 does not clear
> > buffer before filling it. So next time when BIOS/ACPI send WMI
> > event which is smaller as previous then it contains garbage in
> > buffer from previous event.
> > 
> > BIOS/ACPI on devices with WMI interface version 1 clears buffer and
> > sometimes send more events in buffer at one call.
> 
> Are the explanations above based on your observations or perhaps some
> documentation?

Just observation from all DSDT files which I have seen.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-12-28 13:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-24 21:18 [PATCH 0/2] Fixes for dell-wmi Pali Rohár
2015-12-24 21:18 ` [PATCH 1/2] dell-wmi: Check if Dell WMI descriptor structure is valid Pali Rohár
2015-12-25  1:23   ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-12-25 13:02     ` Pali Rohár
2015-12-28 13:37   ` Michał Kępień
2015-12-28 14:08     ` Pali Rohár
2015-12-29 12:44       ` Michał Kępień
2015-12-29 16:05         ` Pali Rohár
2015-12-30 11:27           ` Michał Kępień
2016-01-04 18:23             ` Andy Lutomirski
2015-12-24 21:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] dell-wmi: Process only one event on devices with interface version 0 Pali Rohár
2015-12-28 13:40   ` Michał Kępień
2015-12-28 13:49     ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2015-12-27 12:59 ` [PATCH 0/2] Fixes for dell-wmi Gabriele Mazzotta
2015-12-27 13:07   ` Pali Rohár
2015-12-27 13:10     ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2015-12-27 13:17       ` Pali Rohár
2015-12-28 13:33 ` Michał Kępień
2015-12-28 13:46   ` Pali Rohár
2015-12-29 12:18     ` Michał Kępień
2016-01-04 20:48 ` Darren Hart
2016-01-07 22:31   ` Pali Rohár
2016-01-04 21:26 ` [PATCH v2 " Pali Rohár
2016-01-04 21:26   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] dell-wmi: Check if Dell WMI descriptor structure is valid Pali Rohár
2016-01-04 21:26   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] dell-wmi: Process only one event on devices with interface version 0 Pali Rohár
2016-01-12 11:14     ` Michał Kępień
2016-01-12 17:49       ` Pali Rohár
2016-01-12 20:12         ` Michał Kępień
2016-01-14 23:06           ` Darren Hart
2016-01-11 19:22   ` [PATCH v2 0/2] Fixes for dell-wmi Darren Hart
2016-01-12  0:30     ` Gabriele Mazzotta

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