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From: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
	Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] platform/wmi: Expose the raw WDG data in sysfs
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 23:36:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170801213618.GL25574@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2014962.u6moyPZATx@aspire.rjw.lan>

On Tuesday 01 August 2017 23:20:10 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> No evaluation of AML methods from user space, please.
> 
> This is plain dangerous, because you never know what those things do and doing
> that on production systems is just a plain "no".
> 
> You can, however, expose the output of AML methods this way or another,
> for example if they are expected to generate packages of data or similar.
> 
> The interface for that cannot be "evaluate this random method right now and
> give me the result", though.

It is not a random AML method. It is _WDG buffer which wmi.ko already
reads + parse (IIRC only once when doing initialization) and purpose is
to provide copy of this buffer also to userspace. Similarly like
wmi-bmof.ko provides MOF buffer.

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-01 21:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]       ` <20170801204040.GH25574@pali>
2017-08-01 21:17         ` [PATCH 3/3] platform/wmi: Expose the raw WDG data in sysfs Darren Hart
2017-08-01 21:20           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-01 21:36             ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2017-08-01 21:32               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-01 22:06                 ` Darren Hart
2017-08-01 21:31           ` Pali Rohár
2017-08-01 22:39             ` Darren Hart
2017-08-01 23:51               ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-08-02  2:22                 ` Darren Hart
2017-08-02  7:49                   ` Pali Rohár
2017-08-04 15:03                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-08-06 21:36                       ` Pali Rohár
2017-08-06 22:09                         ` Andy Lutomirski

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