On Tuesday 01 August 2017 13:06:01 Darren Hart wrote:
> 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.
It is ok, add my
Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx>
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