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platform/wmi: Update driver development guide
authorArmin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Fri, 16 Jan 2026 20:41:16 +0000 (21:41 +0100)
committerIlpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Tue, 20 Jan 2026 13:48:00 +0000 (15:48 +0200)
commit2177a02246ffef9ed4a01af2942119e601312965
treebd182e9671acf59bc706819244e5d83010d71f78
parent926a266575a21e96c4c0b9c16b1da1f7fda5a519
platform/wmi: Update driver development guide

New WMI drivers should use the new buffer-based WMI API instead of
the deprecated ACPI-based API. Update the driver development guide
to recommend the buffer-based API to driver developers and explain
the purpose of struct wmi_buffer.

Also update the ACPI interface documentation to describe the
conversion rules for converting ACPI objects into WMI buffers.

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260116204116.4030-10-W_Armin@gmx.de
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Documentation/wmi/acpi-interface.rst
Documentation/wmi/driver-development-guide.rst