[PATCH] acpi/wmi: Stop directing users to outdated LWN article

ivanhu ivan.hu at canonical.com
Tue Dec 17 05:57:11 UTC 2024


Thanks!

Acked-by: Ivan Hu <ivan.hu at canonical.com>

On 2024/12/2 02:47, Armin Wolf wrote:
> The old LWN article about WMI drivers is outdated.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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