On Thu, May 6, 2021 at 4:50 PM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 03:42:08PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > > On 5/6/21 3:37 PM, Guenter Roeck wrote: ... > > We (mostly Andy and me) are not even 100% sure this one is > > a fake ACPI ID, but we do pretty strongly believe that it is. > > > > What a mess :-( What we can do is a checkpatch-alike check for vendor ID to be registered in [1] and issue a warning if not. At least it alerts maintainers. Joe, do you think it is doable or we should have a separate tool for that? (Because I have no clue how checkpatch cohabits with internet connection, otherwise the problem with synchronisation of that registry might be a problem) [1]: https://uefi.org/PNP_ACPI_Registry -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko