Re: [PATCH 08/14] wmi: Probe data objects for read and write capabilities

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> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 5:11 AM, Michał Kępień <kernel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> My laptop has one RW data object, one RO data object, and one
> >> totally inaccessible data object.  Check for the existence of the
> >> accessor methods and report in sysfs.
> >>
> >> The docs also permit WQxx getters for single-instance objects to
> >> take no parameters.  Probe for that as well to avoid ACPICA warnings
> >> about mismatched signatures.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> >>  drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c | 94 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
> >>  include/linux/wmi.h        |  6 +++
> >>  2 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
> >> index 5571ae7354a1..49be61207c4a 100644
> >> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
> >> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
> >> @@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ struct wmi_block {
> >>       struct acpi_device *acpi_device;
> >>       wmi_notify_handler handler;
> >>       void *handler_data;
> >> +
> >> +     bool read_takes_no_args;        /* only defined if readable */
> >>  };
> >>
> >>
> >> @@ -216,6 +218,25 @@ static bool find_guid(const char *guid_string, struct wmi_block **out)
> >>       return false;
> >>  }
> >>
> >> +static int get_subobj_info(acpi_handle handle, const char *pathname,
> >> +                        struct acpi_device_info *info)
> >> +{
> >> +     acpi_handle subobj_handle;
> >> +     acpi_status status;
> >> +
> >> +     status = acpi_get_handle(handle, (char *)pathname, &subobj_handle);
> >> +     if (status == AE_NOT_FOUND)
> >> +             return -ENOENT;
> >> +     else if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
> >> +             return -EIO;
> >> +
> >> +     status = acpi_get_object_info(subobj_handle, &info);
> >
> > acpi_get_object_info() allocates the returned buffer itself.  The latter
> > should then subsequently be freed by the caller.  One solution is to
> > change get_subobj_info() so that it takes a struct acpi_device_info **
> > as an argument, which should then be passed to acpi_get_object_info().
> > See also below.
> 
> I have an updated version of this patch in my queue.  I'll try to send
> it early next week.

Hi Andy,

Are you planning any further work on this patch series (originally
posted in December 2015)?  It seems to be a valuable cleanup.

-- 
Best regards,
Michał Kępień
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