[PATCH] acpi/wmi: Stop directing users to outdated LWN article

Armin Wolf W_Armin at gmx.de
Sun Dec 1 18:47:07 UTC 2024


The old LWN article about WMI drivers is outdated. Modern WMI drivers
should use the new bus-based API instead which is documented under
https://docs.kernel.org/wmi/driver-development-guide.html.

Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin at gmx.de>
---
 src/acpi/wmi/wmi.c | 10 +++-------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/acpi/wmi/wmi.c b/src/acpi/wmi/wmi.c
index 7dfb855f..73af40f0 100644
--- a/src/acpi/wmi/wmi.c
+++ b/src/acpi/wmi/wmi.c
@@ -402,13 +402,9 @@ static void wmi_no_known_driver(
 	if (!wmi_advice_given) {
 		wmi_advice_given = true;
 		fwts_log_advice(fw,
-			"A WMI driver probably needs to be written for this "
-			"WMI event. It can checked for using: wmi_has_guid(\"%s\"). "
-			"One can install a notify handler using "
-			"wmi_install_notify_handler(\"%s\", handler, NULL).  "
-			"http://lwn.net/Articles/391230 describes how to write an "
-			"appropriate driver.",
-			guid_str, guid_str);
+			"A WMI driver probably needs to be written for this WMI event. "
+			"https://docs.kernel.org/wmi/driver-development-guide.html describes how "
+			"to write an appropriate WMI driver.");
 	}
 }

--
2.39.5




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