Drivers may need to make policy decisions based on the OS that the firmware
believes it's interacting with. ACPI firmware will make a series of _OSI
calls, starting from the oldest OS version they support and ending with the
most recent. This patchset adds a function in ACPI OSL layer to return the
last successful call so that drivers know what the firmware's expecting.
Based on a patch by Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>, which
is again based on a patch by Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
Changelog-by: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <matthew.garrett@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/acpi/osl.c | 6 ++++++
include/linux/acpi.h | 6 ++++++
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/osl.c b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
index 6ab2c35..7ebf07d 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/osl.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/osl.c
@@ -1799,3 +1799,9 @@ void alloc_acpi_hp_work(acpi_handle handle, u32 type, void *context,
kfree(hp_work);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_acpi_hp_work);
+
+u8 acpi_osi_version(void)
+{
+ return acpi_gbl_osi_data;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(acpi_osi_version);
diff --git a/include/linux/acpi.h b/include/linux/acpi.h
index 353ba25..fc3b5c2 100644
--- a/include/linux/acpi.h
+++ b/include/linux/acpi.h
@@ -578,4 +578,10 @@ acpi_handle_printk(const char *level, void *handle, const char *fmt, ...) {}
})
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_ACPI
+u8 acpi_osi_version(void);
+#else
+static inline u8 acpi_osi_version(void) { return 0; }
+#endif
+
#endif /*_LINUX_ACPI_H*/
--
1.8.3.2.10.g43d11f4
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