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author | Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de> | 2023-04-25 00:29:39 +0200 |
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committer | Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> | 2023-05-09 11:54:42 +0200 |
commit | bf4f93c4ca4b6f41e81e83131cf9458d27cf62ee (patch) | |
tree | f0036524fbe1ab3d1e7392abc997e0f8db1b6807 | |
parent | platform/x86: wmi: Add documentation (diff) | |
download | linux-bf4f93c4ca4b6f41e81e83131cf9458d27cf62ee.tar.xz linux-bf4f93c4ca4b6f41e81e83131cf9458d27cf62ee.zip |
platform/x86: wmi: Add device specific documentation
Add a place for device-specific documentation of WMI drivers.
The first entry is documentation for the wmi-bmof driver, with
additional documentation being expected to follow.
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/20230424222939.208137-5-W_Armin@gmx.de
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-platform-wmi-bmof | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/wmi/devices/index.rst | 22 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/wmi/devices/wmi-bmof.rst | 25 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/wmi/index.rst | 1 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | MAINTAINERS | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig | 4 |
6 files changed, 64 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-platform-wmi-bmof b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-platform-wmi-bmof new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a786504b6027 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-platform-wmi-bmof @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +What: /sys/bus/wmi/devices/05901221-D566-11D1-B2F0-00A0C9062910[-X]/bmof +Date: Jun 2017 +KernelVersion: 4.13 +Description: + Binary MOF metadata used to decribe the details of available ACPI WMI interfaces. + + See Documentation/wmi/devices/wmi-bmof.rst for details. diff --git a/Documentation/wmi/devices/index.rst b/Documentation/wmi/devices/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..c08735a9d7df --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/wmi/devices/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later + +============================= +Driver-specific Documentation +============================= + +This section provides information about various devices supported by +the Linux kernel, their protocols and driver details. + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + :numbered: + :glob: + + * + +.. only:: subproject and html + + Indices + ======= + + * :ref:`genindex` diff --git a/Documentation/wmi/devices/wmi-bmof.rst b/Documentation/wmi/devices/wmi-bmof.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..ca1ee9a29be3 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/wmi/devices/wmi-bmof.rst @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only + +============================== +WMI embedded Binary MOF driver +============================== + +Introduction +============ + +Many machines embed WMI Binary MOF (Managed Object Format) metadata used to +describe the details of their ACPI WMI interfaces. The data can be decoded +with tools like `bmfdec <https://github.com/pali/bmfdec>`_ to obtain a +human readable WMI interface description, which is useful for developing +new WMI drivers. + +The Binary MOF data can be retrieved from the ``bmof`` sysfs attribute of the +associated WMI device. Please note that multiple WMI devices containing Binary +MOF data can exist on a given system. + +WMI interface +============= + +The Binary MOF WMI device is identified by the WMI GUID ``05901221-D566-11D1-B2F0-00A0C9062910``. +The Binary MOF can be obtained by doing a WMI data block query. The result is +then returned as an ACPI buffer with a variable size. diff --git a/Documentation/wmi/index.rst b/Documentation/wmi/index.rst index b29933a86380..537cff188e14 100644 --- a/Documentation/wmi/index.rst +++ b/Documentation/wmi/index.rst @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ WMI Subsystem :maxdepth: 1 acpi-interface + devices/index .. only:: subproject and html diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 46ad203dad12..fcacf0038d11 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -22739,6 +22739,13 @@ L: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org S: Odd fixes F: drivers/net/wireless/legacy/wl3501* +WMI BINARY MOF DRIVER +L: platform-drivers-x86@vger.kernel.org +S: Orphan +F: Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-platform-wmi-bmof +F: Documentation/wmi/devices/wmi-bmof.rst +F: drivers/platform/x86/wmi-bmof.c + WOLFSON MICROELECTRONICS DRIVERS L: patches@opensource.cirrus.com S: Supported diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig index 22052031c719..3d5dd9e997a6 100644 --- a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig @@ -43,8 +43,8 @@ config WMI_BMOF default ACPI_WMI help Say Y here if you want to be able to read a firmware-embedded - WMI Binary MOF data. Using this requires userspace tools and may be - rather tedious. + WMI Binary MOF (Managed Object Format) data. Using this requires + userspace tools and may be rather tedious. To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will be called wmi-bmof. |