Hi,
On 12/10/23 21:24, Armin Wolf wrote:
> This patch series removes three features deemed obsolete:
> - the debug_dump_wdg module param:
> - suffers from garbled output due to pr_cont()
> - functionality is better provided by "fwts wmi"
> - the debug_event module param:
> - pr_cont() usage
> - uses the deprecated GUID-based API
> - largely replaced by the ACPI netlink interface
> - ioctl interface
> - used only by a single driver, no adoption otherwise
> - numerous design issues
>
> Since the ioctl interface is actually used by userspace programs,
> the only user (the dell-smbios-wmi driver) was modified to implement
> the necessary pieces itself so that no regressions are expected.
>
> The series depends on
> commit cbf54f37600e ("platform/x86: wmi: Skip blocks with zero instances"),
> which is currently in the "fixes" tree.
>
> All patches where tested on a Dell Inspiron 3505 and work without
> issues.
Thank you for your patch-series, I've applied the series to my
review-hans branch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86.git/log/?h=review-hans
Note it will show up in my review-hans branch once I've pushed my
local branch there, which might take a while.
Once I've run some tests on this branch the patches there will be
added to the platform-drivers-x86/for-next branch and eventually
will be included in the pdx86 pull-request to Linus for the next
merge-window.
Regards,
Hans
> Changes since v1:
> - add Reviewed-by to patches 1, 2 and 5
> - drop patch adding the driver development guide
> - rework error handling in dell-smbios-wmi
>
> Armin Wolf (5):
> platform/x86: wmi: Remove debug_dump_wdg module param
> platform/x86: wmi: Remove debug_event module param
> platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Use devm_get_free_pages()
> platform/x86: dell-smbios-wmi: Stop using WMI chardev
> platform/x86: wmi: Remove chardev interface
>
> drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-smbios-wmi.c | 173 ++++++++----
> drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c | 285 +-------------------
> include/linux/wmi.h | 8 -
> 3 files changed, 132 insertions(+), 334 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.39.2
>
