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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2026-09-20 08:15:23 -0700
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Pull futex fix from Ingo Molnar: - Also allocate a default private futex hash on vfork() as well, to avoid races with (private) futex waiters (Peter Zijlstra) * tag 'locking-urgent-2026-09-20' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: futex: Also allocate private hash on vfork()
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+.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+==============
+WMI Driver API
+==============
+
+The WMI driver core supports a more modern bus-based interface for interacting
+with WMI devices, and an older GUID-based interface. The latter interface is
+considered to be deprecated, so new WMI drivers should generally avoid it since
+it has some issues with multiple WMI devices sharing the same GUID.
+The modern bus-based interface instead maps each WMI device to a
+:c:type:`struct wmi_device <wmi_device>`, so it supports WMI devices sharing the
+same GUID. Drivers can then register a :c:type:`struct wmi_driver <wmi_driver>`
+which will be bound to compatible WMI devices by the driver core.
+
+.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/wmi.h
+ :internal:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/platform/wmi/string.c
+ :export:
+
+.. kernel-doc:: drivers/platform/wmi/core.c
+ :export: