Re: [PATCH 3/3] X86 platfrom wmi: Add debug facility to dump WMI data in a readable way

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On Tuesday 04 May 2010 07:40:09 pm Carlos Corbacho wrote:
> On Monday 03 May 2010 14:30:17 Thomas Renninger wrote:
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@xxxxxxx>
> > CC: platform-driver-x86@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > CC: mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > CC: corentin.chary@xxxxxxxxx
>
> I don't really see the point of this one - this information is all
> obtainable from the DSDT.
Yes, but you depend on the wmidump userspace stuff and manually
copying parts of the DSDT, etc.

> If you really want it, then I don't mind, it just seems redundant...
All the code of wmidump is included wmi.c now.
Only dumping this info is missing, which is really useful if
you are not aware of the wmidump tool (and even then it's still
convenient to have) and overhead is negligible.
Yep, I really like to see this.

Thanks,

    Thomas

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