On Sun, Nov 05, 2023 at 11:20:54AM -0800, James Seo wrote: > The EliteDesk 800 G6 stores a raw WMI string within the ACPI object in its > BIOS corresponding to one instance of HPBIOS_PlatformEvents.Name. This is > evidently a valid way of representing a WMI data item as far as the Microsoft > ACPI-WMI mapper is concerned, but is preventing the driver from loading. > > This seems quite rare, but add support for such strings. Treating this as a > quirk pretty much means adding that support anyway. > > Also clean up an oversight in update_numeric_sensor_from_wobj() in which the > result of hp_wmi_strdup() was being used without error checking. > > Reported-by: Lukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@xxxxxxxxxxx> > Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hwmon/7850a0bd-60e7-88f8-1d6c-0bb0e3234fdc@xxxxxxxxxxxx/ > Signed-off-by: James Seo <james@xxxxxxxxxx> > Tested-by: Lukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@xxxxxxxxxxx> I get several checkpatch warnings when trying to apply this patch. Please run checkpatch --strict and fix what it reports. Thanks, Guenter
