Hi,
On 31-10-17 10:13, Mantas Mikulėnas wrote:
Hello,
Recently I have seen quite a few people (in Linux support channels I frequent) have issues with the peaq-wmi driver being autoloaded on *non* PEAQ devices and subsequently flooding the user with ghost keypresses. They end up having to blacklist the module locally.
I noticed that the WMI GUID used by the driver, {ABBC0F6F-8EA1-11D1-00A0-C90629100000}, is identical to a GUID used in *Windows driver examples* published by Microsoft. (For example, it shows up on Google at <https://github.com/Microsoft/Windows-driver-samples/blob/master/wmi/wmiacpi/device.asl>.)
So I'm guessing that quite a few manufacturers decided to copy&paste this GUID into their own drivers/firmwares, but use it for completely different things. Given that, instead of trying to build a DMI blacklist in the module, perhaps the right thing would be to add a DMI *whitelist*?
Correct this is already queued for 4.15, with a Cc: stable:
http://git.infradead.org/users/dvhart/linux-platform-drivers-x86.git/shortlog/refs/heads/for-next
Regards,
Hans
