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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mario.Limonciello@dell.com
Cc: dvhart@infradead.org, andy.shevchenko@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, luto@kernel.org,
	quasisec@google.com, pali.rohar@gmail.com, rjw@rjwysocki.net,
	mjg59@google.com, hch@lst.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 4/8] platform/x86: wmi: create character devices when requested by drivers
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 15:23:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171001132336.GA26295@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81ddaac76f15420b800db365d694e156@ausx13mpc120.AMER.DELL.COM>

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 07:26:57PM +0000, Mario.Limonciello@dell.com wrote:
> I think what's Darren's most interested in is the that conceptually this is
> an approach you can agree with.
> 
> "A WMI vendor driver binds to the WMI bus and requests the WMI bus to create
> a character device.  The WMI bus creates a character device /dev/wmi/$driver
> which the WMI vendor driver will process all various file operations."

We've been over this before, let's see that actual implementation which
defines the "will process all..." implementation to see if that is
actually an acceptable thing.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-01 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-28  4:02 [PATCH v3 0/8] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI Mario Limonciello
2017-09-28  4:02 ` [PATCH v3 1/8] platform/x86: wmi: Add new method wmidev_evaluate_method Mario Limonciello
2017-09-28  4:02 ` [PATCH v3 2/8] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Introduce a WMI-ACPI interface Mario Limonciello
2017-09-28  6:53   ` Pali Rohár
2017-09-28 22:43     ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-29  7:35       ` Pali Rohár
2017-09-30 20:01         ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-30 21:06           ` Pali Rohár
2017-09-30  0:51   ` Darren Hart
2017-09-30  7:15     ` Pali Rohár
2017-09-30 19:56       ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-28  4:02 ` [PATCH v3 3/8] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: Use Dell WMI descriptor check Mario Limonciello
2017-09-30  1:29   ` Darren Hart
2017-09-30 19:48     ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-30 20:01       ` Pali Rohár
2017-10-02 14:15         ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-10-02 14:37           ` Pali Rohár
2017-10-01  8:43     ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-09-28  4:02 ` [PATCH v3 4/8] platform/x86: wmi: create character devices when requested by drivers Mario Limonciello
2017-09-30  1:52   ` Darren Hart
2017-09-30  8:12     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-09-30 19:26       ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-10-01 13:23         ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-10-01 14:25           ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-10-01 18:03             ` Greg KH
2017-10-02  0:57       ` Darren Hart
2017-10-02  9:24         ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-10-02 14:33           ` Darren Hart
2017-10-03  9:23   ` Greg KH
2017-10-03 15:09     ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-10-03 15:10     ` Darren Hart
2017-10-03 16:48       ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-10-03 17:46         ` Greg KH
2017-10-03 18:38         ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-10-03 19:31           ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-10-03  9:23   ` Greg KH
2017-10-03 15:13     ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-28  4:02 ` [PATCH v3 5/8] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: introduce character device for userspace Mario Limonciello
2017-09-30  2:06   ` Darren Hart
2017-09-30 19:45     ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-10-03  9:26   ` Greg KH
2017-10-03 15:09     ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-10-03 15:20     ` Darren Hart
2017-10-03 15:49       ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-10-05  0:02         ` Darren Hart
2017-10-05 15:10           ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-28  4:02 ` [PATCH v3 6/8] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: Add a sysfs interface for SMBIOS tokens Mario Limonciello
2017-09-30  2:10   ` Darren Hart
2017-10-01  8:51     ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-09-28  4:02 ` [PATCH v3 7/8] platform/x86: Kconfig: Change the default settings for dell-wmi-smbios Mario Limonciello
2017-09-28  4:02 ` [PATCH v3 8/8] platform/x86: dell-wmi-smbios: clean up wmi descriptor check Mario Limonciello
2017-10-02 13:15   ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-10-02 13:26     ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-09-30  2:16 ` [PATCH v3 0/8] Introduce support for Dell SMBIOS over WMI Darren Hart
2017-09-30 19:56   ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-10-05  2:44     ` Darren Hart

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