Inform potential firmware developers that WExx ACPI methods are
always called by the WMI driver core even if the associated WMI event
is not marked as being expensive.
Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250619221440.6737-2-W_Armin@gmx.de
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
After performing some tests with a custom SSDT table available at
https://github.com/Wer-Wolf/acpi-wmi-ssdt i found out that Windows
also enables data block collection even when the data block is
being set.
Emulate this behaviour to avoid confusing the ACPI firmware.
The bus-based API already implements this behaviour, so only the
legacy GUID-based API needs to be changed.
Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250216193251.866125-8-W_Armin@gmx.de
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Update the WMI ACPI interface documentation to include the fact
that _WED should be evaluated every time an ACPI notification
is received.
Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240219115919.16526-5-W_Armin@gmx.de
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Add documentation for the WMI subsystem. The documentation describes
both the ACPI WMI interface and the driver API for interacting with
the WMI driver core. The information regarding the ACPI interface
was retrieved from the Ubuntu kernel references and the Windows driver
samples available on GitHub. The documentation is supposed to help
driver developers writing WMI drivers, as many modern machines designed
to run Windows provide an ACPI WMI interface.
Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230424222939.208137-4-W_Armin@gmx.de
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
