Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: alienware-wmi-base: Transition to new WMI API

["Kurt Borja" <kuurtb@gmail.com>]

On Mon Mar 30, 2026 at 6:26 PM -05, Armin Wolf wrote:
> Am 30.03.26 um 17:50 schrieb Kurt Borja:
>
>> Transition to the new wmi_buffer based WMI API.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>   drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-base.c | 29 ++++++++++++++------------
>>   1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-base.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-base.c
>> index 64562b92314f..ef2b4893b7b5 100644
>> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-base.c
>> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-base.c
>> @@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
>>   #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
>>   
>>   #include <linux/acpi.h>
>> -#include <linux/cleanup.h>
>>   #include <linux/module.h>
>>   #include <linux/platform_device.h>
>>   #include <linux/dmi.h>
>> @@ -150,23 +149,27 @@ u8 alienware_interface;
>>   int alienware_wmi_command(struct wmi_device *wdev, u32 method_id,
>>   			  void *in_args, size_t in_size, u32 *out_data)
>>   {
>> -	struct acpi_buffer out = {ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER, NULL};
>> -	struct acpi_buffer in = {in_size, in_args};
>> -	acpi_status ret;
>> +	struct wmi_buffer out, in = {
>> +		.data = in_args,
>> +		.length = in_size,
>> +	};
>> +	int ret;
>>   
>> -	ret = wmidev_evaluate_method(wdev, 0, method_id, &in, out_data ? &out : NULL);
>> -	if (ACPI_FAILURE(ret))
>> -		return -EIO;
>> +	ret = wmidev_invoke_method(wdev, 0, method_id, &in, out_data ? &out : NULL);
>> +	if (ret)
>> +		return ret;
>>   
>> -	union acpi_object *obj __free(kfree) = out.pointer;
>> +	if (!out_data)
>> +		return 0;
>>   
>> -	if (out_data) {
>> -		if (obj && obj->type == ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER)
>> -			*out_data = (u32)obj->integer.value;
>> -		else
>> -			return -ENOMSG;
>> +	if (out.length < sizeof(*out_data)) {
>> +		kfree(out.data);
>> +		return -ENOMSG;
>>   	}
>>   
>> +	*out_data = *(u32 *)out.data;
>
> Please cast the output data to a __le32 * and use le32_to_cpu() to take the endianess into account.
> The rest looks fine to me.

Hi Armin,

Will do -- Thanks!

>
> Thanks,
> Armin Wolf

-- 
Thanks,
 ~ Kurt