Re: [PATCH 1/2] dell-wmi: Check if Dell WMI descriptor structure is valid

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 3:27 AM, MichaÅ KÄpieÅ <kernel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > If you feel like I'm nit-picking and none of the above matters,
>> > please feel free to disregard my input and just follow your gut.
>>
>> It's ok. We just understand it quite differently. And in this case what
>> about changing commit message to something like this?
>>
>> ===
>> dell-wmi: Check if Dell WMI descriptor structure is valid
>>
>> After examining existing DSDT ACPI tables of more laptops and looking
>> into Dell WMI document mentioned in ML dicussion archived at
>> http://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg07220.html we will
>> parse and check WMI descriptor if contains expected data. It is because
>> WMI descriptor contains interface version number and it is needed to
>> know in next commit.
>> ===
>
> I like it way more than the previous one.
>

FWIW, the original version of this series works fine on my laptop
(after fixing the separate dmi_walk misuse bug).

--Andy
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