Re: WMI driver no longer load after switching to generic UUID library

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Sun, 2016-05-29 at 13:22 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Andy?
> 
> Looking at that commit, it does look like what wmi_parse_guid +
> wmi_swap_bytes did was to implement a LE uuid. So the conversion looks
> correct, but the fact that it breaks something obviously means that
> there's something missing. What's going on?

I proposed to add print to the loops to see what's going on there.

> 
> And dammit, how I hate uuid's and the idiotic byte ordering issue.
> It's possibly the only idiotic standard that is even worse than xml.

T'so seems has the same opinion http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg2
263333.html

> 
>             Linus
> 
> On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 11:35 AM, Kui Zhang <kuizhang@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > After commit 538d7eb86d58 ("drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c: use generic
> > UUID library")
> > 
> > some keyboard functions stopped working:
> > 
> > clevo-wmi - git://git.code.sf.net/p/clevo-wmi/code
> > [   83.877887] Clevo Get GUID not found
> > 
> > /*
> > #define CLWMI_GET_GUID "ABBC0F6D-8EA1-11d1-00A0-C90629100000"
> > 
> > ...
> >     if(!wmi_has_guid(CLWMI_GET_GUID)) {
> >         pr_err("Clevo Get GUID not found\n");
> >         return -ENODEV;
> >     }
> > 
> > 
> > */
> > 
> > clevo-xsm-wmi - https://bitbucket.org/lynthium/clevo-xsm-wmi.git
> > insmod: ERROR: could not insert module clevo-xsm-wmi.ko: No such
> > device
> > 
> > /*
> > 
> > #define CLEVO_GET_GUID    "ABBC0F6D-8EA1-11D1-00A0-C90629100000"
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> >     if (!wmi_has_guid(CLEVO_GET_GUID)) {
> >         CLEVO_XSM_INFO("No known WMI control method GUID found\n");
> >         return -ENODEV;
> >     }
> > 
> > */
> > 
> > 
> > thanks
> > Kui.Z

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy