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From: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
To: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] platform/wmi: Expose the raw WDG data in sysfs
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2017 13:03:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170801200313.GC3110@fury> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e6df9d038af0a0ce4d4119395aaea58366ade26d.1501601667.git.luto@kernel.org>

On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 08:37:28AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> This adds a sysfs binary attribute 'wdg' on the bus device
> (i.e. /sys/class/wmi_bus/wmi_bus-*/wdg) that contains the raw _WDG
> data from ACPI.  This can be used along with the wmi-bmof driver to
> decode the raw interface data from ACPI.

I don't recall seeing mention of this is the documentation I read as a
requirement to decoding the interface with the bmof. Do Windows systems export
_WDG to userspace?

Why do we need to export _WDG?

-- 
Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-01 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-01 15:37 [PATCH 0/3] Three WMI improvements Andy Lutomirski
2017-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 1/3] platform/dell-wmi: Fix driver interface version query Andy Lutomirski
2017-08-01 15:43   ` Pali Rohár
2017-08-01 18:08     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-08-01 19:54       ` Darren Hart
2017-08-01 20:45       ` Pali Rohár
2017-08-01 20:59         ` Darren Hart
2017-08-01 21:16           ` Pali Rohár
2017-08-02  2:25             ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-08-02  2:54               ` Darren Hart
2017-08-01 19:52     ` Darren Hart
2017-08-01 20:06   ` Darren Hart
2017-08-01 20:36     ` Pali Rohár
2017-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 2/3] platform/dell-wmi: Update dell_wmi_check_descriptor_buffer() to new model Andy Lutomirski
2017-08-01 15:44   ` Pali Rohár
2017-08-19  0:14     ` Darren Hart
2017-08-01 15:37 ` [PATCH 3/3] platform/wmi: Expose the raw WDG data in sysfs Andy Lutomirski
2017-08-01 15:46   ` Pali Rohár
2017-08-01 18:29     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-08-01 20:03   ` Darren Hart [this message]
2017-08-01 20:19     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-08-01 20:40       ` Pali Rohár
2017-08-01 21:17         ` Darren Hart
2017-08-01 21:20           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-01 21:36             ` Pali Rohár
2017-08-01 21:32               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-08-01 22:06                 ` Darren Hart
2017-08-01 21:31           ` Pali Rohár
2017-08-01 22:39             ` Darren Hart
2017-08-01 23:51               ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-08-02  2:22                 ` Darren Hart
2017-08-02  7:49                   ` Pali Rohár
2017-08-04 15:03                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-08-06 21:36                       ` Pali Rohár
2017-08-06 22:09                         ` Andy Lutomirski

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