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* [PATCH 0/5] WMI
@ 2007-12-18 23:51 Carlos Corbacho
  2007-12-18 23:51 ` [PATCH 1/4] ACPI: WMI: Add ACPI-WMI mapping driver Carlos Corbacho
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  0 siblings, 5 replies; 24+ messages in thread
From: Carlos Corbacho @ 2007-12-18 23:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-acpi; +Cc: Len Brown, Matthew Garrett, Alexey Starikovskiy

YAWR - Yet Another WMI release

Patch #1: (WMI - driver and in kernel interface)

Updated EC region handling as per Alexey's comments

Len:
For review, and hopefully to go up to 2.6.25

(Bar the EC stuff, this code has also been inflic^^^^tested by acer_acpi users
with the 0.10 RCs and 0.10 releases, so I'm confident on Acer hardware at least
that it won't break horribly).

Patch #2: (acer-wmi) - No Change

For review, and (rather tentatively here) 2.6.25 material?

Patch #3: (tc1100-wmi) - No Change

RFC only, needs actual testing on the hardware, and probably very broken.
Waiting on Matthew Garrett to get some free time to test this.

Patch #4: (WMI sysfs interface) - No Change

RFC only (see patch #5 for reason). Adds interface under
/sys/devices/virtual/wmi

Patch #5: (WMI sysfs workaround) - No change

Temporary hack, needed to get patch #4 working, due to a limitation on bus_id
length (Kay Sievers is apparently working on this, ref Greg KH[1]). This
should _NOT_ be applied to any upstream kernel.

-Carlos

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/4/30

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* [PATCH 0/4] WMI & acer_wmi
@ 2007-12-08  1:58 Carlos Corbacho
  2007-12-08  2:01 ` [PATCH 2/4] acer-wmi: Add driver for newer Acer laptops Carlos Corbacho
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 24+ messages in thread
From: Carlos Corbacho @ 2007-12-08  1:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Linux-acpi; +Cc: Len Brown, Matthew Garrett

Patch 1: Add ACPI-WMI mapping driver

Len - unless there are any objections, I would like this patch applied.

---

Patch 2: Add driver for newer Acer laptops (acer-wmi)

Matthew - I've added both GUID based matching (long term plan - see notes for 
patch 3 & 4) and WMI based matching (short term - until patch 3 can be 
applied. Doesn't cover all supported laptops, but should cover the Acer ones 
at least, which are the greater majority of the acer-wmi supported laptops).

Len - Once any other comments from either Matthew or yourself are addressed, 
I'd like to get this patch applied.

---

Patch 3: (RFC) Add sysfs userspace interface (to WMI)

I rewrote the sysfs code (again!). Rather than fiddling with kobjects directly 
(which are in the middle of another big change...) I've switched WMI to a 
class with virtual devices - each GUID is now its own virtual device, which 
means we can do matching based on the GUID.

e.g. (this is a real, tested and working example from acer-wmi)

MODULE_ALIAS("wmi:67C3371D-95A3-4C37-BB61-DD47B491DAAB");

Also, each GUID now does _not_ have instance subdirectories (since this would 
involve more kobject fiddling, which I want to avoid). Instead, I've added 
two new files, instance_count (reports the number of instances from the GUID 
entry in _WDG) and instance (the instance we want to execute).

So executing, for example, a method, is now:

write an instance (0 to instance_count) to 'instance' (e.g. 1)
write a method ID to method (e.g. 1)
(write input data to 'data' - if there is any input)
read 'data' to execute and get output from call.

However, this patch is an RFC only - it should _not_ be applied to the ACPI 
tree, or pushed to -mm/ upstream (see patch #4 for why)

---

Patch 4: Limit device string to 19 characters

Unfortunately, struct device still has a static bus_id array of 20 characters 
(WMI needs 36 + null termination). Ref Greg KH, Kay Sievers is apparently 
working on a patch to fix this problem - http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/12/4/30

This patch is just a hack so that you can actually load and test patch #3 
(although it means the GUID directory names are truncated - however, this 
will not affect either the autoloading or being able to trigger the methods/ 
data calls via sysfs).

-Carlos
-- 
E-Mail: carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk
Web: strangeworlds.co.uk
GPG Key ID: 0x23EE722D

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2007-12-18 23:51 [PATCH 0/5] WMI Carlos Corbacho
2007-12-18 23:51 ` [PATCH 1/4] ACPI: WMI: Add ACPI-WMI mapping driver Carlos Corbacho
2007-12-26 21:17   ` Matthew Garrett
2007-12-27  1:09     ` Carlos Corbacho
2007-12-27  2:21       ` Matthew Garrett
2007-12-18 23:51 ` [PATCH 2/4] acer-wmi: Add driver for newer Acer laptops Carlos Corbacho
2007-12-19  1:58   ` Carlos Corbacho
2007-12-19  7:45     ` Matthew Garrett
2007-12-18 23:51 ` [PATCH 3/4] [RFC] tc1100-wmi: Add driver for HP Compaq TC1100 Tablets Carlos Corbacho
2007-12-18 23:52 ` [PATCH 4/4] [RFC] ACPI: WMI: Add sysfs userspace interface Carlos Corbacho
2007-12-26 19:38   ` Matthew Garrett
2007-12-27  0:54     ` Carlos Corbacho
2007-12-27  1:05       ` Carlos Corbacho
2007-12-26 22:48 ` [PATCH, RFC] HP WMI hotkey driver Matthew Garrett
2008-01-03 16:58   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-01-14 17:41     ` [PATCH, RFC] HP WMI hotkey driver, RFKill query? Matthew Garrett
2008-01-14 18:27       ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-01-14 22:25         ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-01-15 20:54           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-01-16  1:38             ` Carlos Corbacho
2008-01-16  1:49               ` Matthew Garrett
2008-02-07  3:54               ` Len Brown
2008-02-08 15:26                 ` Carlos Corbacho
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2007-12-08  1:58 [PATCH 0/4] WMI & acer_wmi Carlos Corbacho
2007-12-08  2:01 ` [PATCH 2/4] acer-wmi: Add driver for newer Acer laptops Carlos Corbacho

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