Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fixes for dell-wmi
From: Gabriele Mazzotta
Date: Sun Dec 27 2015 - 08:11:03 EST
On 27/12/2015 14:07, Pali RohÃr wrote:
> On Sunday 27 December 2015 13:59:57 Gabriele Mazzotta wrote:
>> On 24/12/2015 22:18, Pali RohÃr wrote:
>>> This patch series adds check if Dell WMI descriptor structure is
>>> valid and fixes processing WMI events on devices with WMI
>>> interface version 0.
>>>
>>> After testing, second patch is good candidate for backporting into
>>> stable kernels, but problem is that it cannot be used without
>>> first patch. So I let decision to other people.
>>>
>>> Gabriele and MichaÅ, this patch series should fix processing events
>>> on yours Dell laptops (you have in DSDT defined version 0). Can
>>> you test it?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tested the patches and all the function keys work, but I can see
>> that there are some differences in the dmesg.
>>
>> Here a before and after comparison.
>>
>> The radio button seems to generate longer messages when compared to
>> the others.
>
> Hi! Thanks for testing. Can you please recompile driver with line
> #define DEBUG at beginning of dell-wmi.c file and send dmesg output
> again? I want to see processing buffer debug lines in dmesg. Here we
> should see that after this patch series garbage will not be parsed.
I had to define DEBUG to get those lines.
dell_new_hk_type is false, so that's all I can get.
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