This patch series reworks how WMI devices are enabled and disabled to improve the compatibility with various firmware implementations. The first three patches make sure that no WMI driver using the WMI bus infrastructure is using the deprecated GUID-based API to access the underlying WMI device. The fourth patch is a unrelated cleanup patch. The last four patches finally rework the WMI device enabling inside the WMI core and update the documentation. The WMI core patches have been tested on a Dell Inspiron 3505, but the remaining patches are mostly compile-tested only. Changes since v2: - add Reviewed-by, Acked-by and Tested-by tags - use devres to disable the WMI device Armin Wolf (8): hwmon: (hp-wmi-sensors) Use the WMI bus API when accessing sensors platform/x86: think-lmi: Use ACPI object when extracting strings platform/x86: think-lmi: Use WMI bus API when accessing BIOS settings platform/x86: hp-bioscfg: Use wmi_instance_count() platform/x86: wmi: Use devres to disable the WMI device platform/x86: wmi: Rework WCxx/WExx ACPI method handling platform/x86: wmi: Call WCxx methods when setting data blocks platform/x86: wmi: Update documentation regarding the GUID-based API Documentation/wmi/acpi-interface.rst | 3 + .../wmi/driver-development-guide.rst | 4 + drivers/hwmon/hp-wmi-sensors.c | 4 +- drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg/bioscfg.c | 13 +- drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.c | 51 +++---- drivers/platform/x86/think-lmi.h | 2 + drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c | 141 ++++++++++-------- 7 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 102 deletions(-) -- 2.39.5
