Re: Multiple MOF GUID's

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On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 11:30 AM,  <Mario.Limonciello@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Andy,
>
> I was looking at a system that will have many more WMI methods, and realizing that I can't
> view the bmof for the extra methods.  This is because of b0e863029 which will show a warning
> when multiple of the same WMI GUID's are found.
> The same GUID 05901221-D566-11D1-B2F0-00A0C9062910 is used to describe each one of them.

So there are multiple WMI instances, both of which have bmof?

>
> I think the symlinks in sysfs will break if the warning is just removed.
>
> So what should we do about this?  I think they should both be accessible from the bmof driver from
> userspace.

Fixing it will require changing the data structures to get rid of the
global wmi_block_list.  I don't think it'll affect the ABI.  I'll
gladly review a patch ;)

--Andy



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