From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751833AbbL1OI1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Dec 2015 09:08:27 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f52.google.com ([74.125.82.52]:37335 "EHLO mail-wm0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750777AbbL1OIY (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Dec 2015 09:08:24 -0500 From: Pali =?utf-8?q?Roh=C3=A1r?= To: =?utf-8?q?Micha=C5=82_K=C4=99pie=C5=84?= Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] dell-wmi: Check if Dell WMI descriptor structure is valid Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 15:08:20 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/3.13.0-71-generic; KDE/4.14.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Matthew Garrett , Darren Hart , Gabriele Mazzotta , Andy Lutomirski , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1450991926-20937-1-git-send-email-pali.rohar@gmail.com> <1450991926-20937-2-git-send-email-pali.rohar@gmail.com> <20151228133707.GB7540@eudyptula.hq.kempniu.pl> In-Reply-To: <20151228133707.GB7540@eudyptula.hq.kempniu.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart8802709.6tff9tpSFN"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201512281508.20683@pali> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart8802709.6tff9tpSFN Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 28 December 2015 14:37:07 Micha=C5=82 K=C4=99pie=C5=84 wrote: > > According to Dell WMI document mentioned in ML dicussion archived > > at http://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg07220.html > > OS should check Dell WMI descriptor structure. >=20 > "Should" or "can"? I skimmed through the ACPI-WMI PDF and Mario's > message again and I couldn't find any explicit statement urging the > reader to check the structure in question before doing anything else. That's questionable... In "Design flow" is first point that WMI=20 descriptor check. =2D-=20 Pali Roh=C3=A1r pali.rohar@gmail.com --nextPart8802709.6tff9tpSFN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAlaBQlQACgkQi/DJPQPkQ1LfrwCgjnZ/CvxSHLeram8nlnJV3NuO 3rYAoKiHyu0xuIammYDKq+PNuFdVd7B1 =NDq7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8802709.6tff9tpSFN--