From: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@gmail.com>
To: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>,
"Armin Wolf" <W_Armin@gmx.de>, "Hans de Goede" <hansg@kernel.org>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, Dell.Client.Kernel@dell.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Kurt Borja <kuurtb@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2] platform/x86: alienware-wmi-base: Transition to new WMI API
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:13:55 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260331-aw-new-api-v2-1-3b0d33bf8d22@gmail.com> (raw)
Transition to the new wmi_buffer based WMI API.
Signed-off-by: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@gmail.com>
---
v2:
- Cast wmi_buffer data to __le32 and then use le32_to_cpu() before
returning
v1: https://patch.msgid.link/20260330-aw-new-api-v1-1-95910bfa1b38@gmail.com
---
drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-base.c | 32 +++++++++++++++-----------
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-base.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-base.c
index 64562b92314f..9abdc5de8e23 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-base.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-base.c
@@ -9,11 +9,13 @@
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
#include <linux/acpi.h>
-#include <linux/cleanup.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
#include <linux/dmi.h>
#include <linux/leds.h>
+
+#include <asm/byteorder.h>
+
#include "alienware-wmi.h"
MODULE_AUTHOR("Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@outlook.com>");
@@ -150,23 +152,27 @@ u8 alienware_interface;
int alienware_wmi_command(struct wmi_device *wdev, u32 method_id,
void *in_args, size_t in_size, u32 *out_data)
{
- struct acpi_buffer out = {ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER, NULL};
- struct acpi_buffer in = {in_size, in_args};
- acpi_status ret;
+ struct wmi_buffer out, in = {
+ .data = in_args,
+ .length = in_size,
+ };
+ int ret;
- ret = wmidev_evaluate_method(wdev, 0, method_id, &in, out_data ? &out : NULL);
- if (ACPI_FAILURE(ret))
- return -EIO;
+ ret = wmidev_invoke_method(wdev, 0, method_id, &in, out_data ? &out : NULL);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
- union acpi_object *obj __free(kfree) = out.pointer;
+ if (!out_data)
+ return 0;
- if (out_data) {
- if (obj && obj->type == ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER)
- *out_data = (u32)obj->integer.value;
- else
- return -ENOMSG;
+ if (out.length < sizeof(*out_data)) {
+ kfree(out.data);
+ return -ENOMSG;
}
+ *out_data = le32_to_cpu(*(__le32 *)out.data);
+ kfree(out.data);
+
return 0;
}
---
base-commit: fab7c51693e95aa874d6d9db22bfae7bd0b23c66
change-id: 20260123-aw-new-api-1c18f1011f35
--
Thanks,
~ Kurt
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-31 5:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-31 5:13 Kurt Borja [this message]
2026-03-31 8:22 ` [PATCH v2] platform/x86: alienware-wmi-base: Transition to new WMI API Ilpo Järvinen
2026-03-31 16:08 ` Kurt Borja
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