From: "Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
To: Antheas Kapenekakis <lkml@antheas.dev>
Cc: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>, Hans de Goede <hansg@kernel.org>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] platform/x86: msi-wmi-platform: Fix autoloading
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 19:14:38 +0200 (EET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <68328879-4052-2b0f-4cef-fe3fccd2c1c8@linux.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGwozwHq45Bj4FgRyrmd4dvLkR_hUGB7wVDUdtttR13sJGHHyw@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 10 Nov 2025, Antheas Kapenekakis wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 at 12:13, Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > As already noted by Antheas Kapenekakis back in May, the
> > msi-wmi-platform driver fails to automatically load on MSI Claw
> > devices. Back then i suspected an issue with the device firmware,
> > however i just found out that i made a silly mistake when specifying
> > the GUID string of the driver, preventing the WMI driver core from
> > matching it to its WMI device.
> > Additionally i noticed that said GUID was copied from the Windows
> > driver samples, meaning that it might be shared across different
> > vendors. Because of this we have to prevent this driver from loading
> > on non-MSI devices.
> >
> > Compile-tested only.
>
> Works great. Module loads normally without intervention from userspace.
>
> I could not find an online reference for our discussion so I omit the close tag.
>
> Replying to the cover applies to all patches if my understanding is correct.
>
> Reported-by: Antheas Kapenekakis <lkml@antheas.dev>
> Tested-by: Antheas Kapenekakis <lkml@antheas.dev>
Thanks, I've added these tags to the commits.
--
i.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-10 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-10 11:12 [PATCH 0/2] platform/x86: msi-wmi-platform: Fix autoloading Armin Wolf
2025-11-10 11:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] platform/x86: msi-wmi-platform: Only load on MSI devices Armin Wolf
2025-11-10 12:40 ` Ilpo Järvinen
2025-11-10 18:02 ` Armin Wolf
2025-11-10 11:12 ` [PATCH 2/2] platform/x86: msi-wmi-platform: Fix typo in WMI GUID Armin Wolf
2025-11-10 11:31 ` [PATCH 0/2] platform/x86: msi-wmi-platform: Fix autoloading Antheas Kapenekakis
2025-11-10 13:03 ` Antheas Kapenekakis
2025-11-10 17:02 ` Antheas Kapenekakis
2025-11-10 17:14 ` Ilpo Järvinen [this message]
2025-11-10 17:50 ` Armin Wolf
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