When an ACPI netlink event is received by acpid, the ACPI device class is passed as its first argument. But since the class string is not initialized, an empty string is being passed: netlink: PNP0C14:01 000000d0 00000000 Fix this by initializing the ACPI device class during probe. Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx> --- Note: This patch is based on commit 3f399b5d7189 ("platform/x86: wmi: Use ACPI device name in netlink event") --- drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c index 7ef1e82dc61c..b92425c30a50 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c @@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ #include <linux/wmi.h> #include <linux/fs.h> +#define ACPI_WMI_DEVICE_CLASS "wmi" + MODULE_AUTHOR("Carlos Corbacho"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("ACPI-WMI Mapping Driver"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); @@ -1202,7 +1204,7 @@ static int wmi_notify_device(struct device *dev, void *data) wblock->handler(*event, wblock->handler_data); } - acpi_bus_generate_netlink_event(wblock->acpi_device->pnp.device_class, + acpi_bus_generate_netlink_event(acpi_device_class(wblock->acpi_device), acpi_dev_name(wblock->acpi_device), *event, 0); return -EBUSY; @@ -1267,6 +1269,8 @@ static int acpi_wmi_probe(struct platform_device *device) return -ENODEV; } + strscpy(acpi_device_class(acpi_device), ACPI_WMI_DEVICE_CLASS, sizeof(acpi_device_class)); + wmi_bus_dev = device_create(&wmi_bus_class, &device->dev, MKDEV(0, 0), NULL, "wmi_bus-%s", dev_name(&device->dev)); if (IS_ERR(wmi_bus_dev)) -- 2.39.2