On Tue, Aug 01, 2017 at 08:37:26AM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> When I converted dell-wmi to the new bus infrastructure, I left the
> call to dell_wmi_check_descriptor_buffer() in dell_wmi_init(). This
> could cause two problems:
>
> - An error message when loading the driver on a system without
> dell-wmi. We'd try to read the event descriptor even if the WMI
> GUID wasn't there.
>
> - A possible race if dell-wmi was loaded manually before wmi was
> fully initialized.
>
> Fix it by moving the call to the probe function where it belongs.
>
> Fixes: bff589be59c5 ("platform/x86: dell-wmi: Convert to the WMI bus infrastructure")
> Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@xxxxxxxxxx>
Queueing this one (1/3) to testing.
Pali, aside from the separate input event receiving discussion, do you have any
concerns with this patch? I'd like to get this to Linus this week for our 4.13-2
PR for this RC cycle.
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Darren Hart
VMware Open Source Technology Center
