Re: [RFC v2] hwmon: (hp-wmi-sensors) Fix failure to load on EliteDesk 800 G6

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 11:20:54AM -0800, James Seo wrote:
> The EliteDesk 800 G6 stores a raw WMI string within the ACPI object in its
> BIOS corresponding to one instance of HPBIOS_PlatformEvents.Name. This is
> evidently a valid way of representing a WMI data item as far as the Microsoft
> ACPI-WMI mapper is concerned, but is preventing the driver from loading.
> 
> This seems quite rare, but add support for such strings. Treating this as a
> quirk pretty much means adding that support anyway.
> 
> Also clean up an oversight in update_numeric_sensor_from_wobj() in which the
> result of hp_wmi_strdup() was being used without error checking.
> 
> Reported-by: Lukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hwmon/7850a0bd-60e7-88f8-1d6c-0bb0e3234fdc@roeck-us.net/
> Signed-off-by: James Seo <james@equiv.tech>
> Tested-by: Lukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@samsung.com>

I get several checkpatch warnings when trying to apply this patch.
Please run checkpatch --strict and fix what it reports.

Thanks,
Guenter