From a9ed3aa9b87ee41e8ab3ff471b1331c154767e45 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Airlie Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 07:57:59 +1000 Subject: Merge tag 'drm-misc-fixes-2026-09-24' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel into drm-fixes A number of fixes: - bridge: - samsung-dsim: fix GPIO lifetime - client: Null pointer dereference fix - imagination: error handling fix, page handling fix - nouveau: fix reference leaks, double-frees, out-of-bounds accesses, use-after-frees, don't reject config without SCDC, a number of workarounds - virtio: fix memory leak, reference leaks, null pointer dereference, add pixel blend mode, cache coherency fix Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie From: Maxime Ripard Link: https://patch.msgid.link/arU22zzqUGDEco1y@houat --- Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst (limited to 'Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst') diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..b847bcdcb --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +.. 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 `, so it supports WMI devices sharing the +same GUID. Drivers can then register a :c:type:`struct 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: -- cgit v1.3.1