From: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
To: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
Cc: dvhart@infradead.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, quasisec@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/12] platform/x86: dell-wmi: Don't match on descriptor GUID modalias
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2017 18:06:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170925160627.GH22190@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e095a34ec411e46a6e890f5215b1f85ee7338795.1505999739.git.mario.limonciello@dell.com>
On Thursday 21 September 2017 08:57:07 Mario Limonciello wrote:
> The descriptor GUID is not used to indicate that WMI notifications
> in the dell-wmi driver work properly. As such a modalias should
> not be present that causes this driver to load on systems with this
> GUID.
Ok, understood. What we need there is to load driver in case both
aliases are present in system. But I have no idea if kernel supports
such logic. So, add my:
Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
> ---
> drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c | 1 -
> 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c
> index 28d9f8696081..1fbef560ca67 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c
> @@ -51,7 +51,6 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> static bool wmi_requires_smbios_request;
>
> MODULE_ALIAS("wmi:"DELL_EVENT_GUID);
> -MODULE_ALIAS("wmi:"DELL_DESCRIPTOR_GUID);
>
> struct dell_wmi_priv {
> struct input_dev *input_dev;
--
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-25 16:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-21 13:57 [PATCH 00/12] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI Mario Limonciello
2017-09-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 01/12] platform/x86: dell-wmi: label driver as handling notifications Mario Limonciello
2017-09-25 16:04 ` Pali Rohár
2017-09-25 20:14 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-27 15:43 ` Darren Hart
2017-09-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 02/12] platform/x86: dell-wmi: Don't match on descriptor GUID modalias Mario Limonciello
2017-09-25 16:06 ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2017-09-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 03/12] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Add pr_fmt definition to driver Mario Limonciello
2017-09-21 16:22 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-09-25 16:07 ` Pali Rohár
2017-09-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 04/12] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Switch to a WMI-ACPI interface Mario Limonciello
2017-09-25 16:18 ` Pali Rohár
2017-09-25 19:28 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-27 16:46 ` Darren Hart
2017-09-27 18:29 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-27 19:47 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-09-27 21:15 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 05/12] platform/x86: dell-smbios: rename to dell-wmi-smbios Mario Limonciello
2017-09-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 06/12] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: Add a sysfs interface for SMBIOS tokens Mario Limonciello
2017-09-25 16:23 ` Pali Rohár
2017-09-25 17:04 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-09-25 17:31 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-27 16:50 ` Darren Hart
2017-09-27 18:27 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-27 18:31 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-09-27 18:55 ` Darren Hart
2017-09-27 19:49 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-09-27 19:50 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 07/12] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: Use Dell WMI descriptor check Mario Limonciello
2017-09-21 16:44 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-09-21 20:56 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 08/12] platform/x86: wmi: Cleanup exit routine in reverse order of init Mario Limonciello
2017-09-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 09/12] platform/x86: wmi: create character devices when requested by drivers Mario Limonciello
2017-09-21 16:46 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-09-21 19:21 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 10/12] platform/x86: wmi: destroy on cleanup rather than unregister Mario Limonciello
2017-09-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 11/12] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: introduce character device for userspace Mario Limonciello
2017-09-25 16:31 ` Pali Rohár
2017-09-25 16:58 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-09-25 17:46 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-27 16:59 ` Darren Hart
2017-09-27 18:10 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-27 18:50 ` Darren Hart
2017-09-27 21:12 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-27 21:59 ` Darren Hart
2017-09-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 12/12] platform/x86: Kconfig: Change the default settings for dell-wmi-smbios Mario Limonciello
2017-09-25 16:13 ` [PATCH 00/12] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI Pali Rohár
2017-09-25 16:32 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-25 16:49 ` Pali Rohár
2017-09-25 19:27 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-27 16:39 ` Darren Hart
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