Re: [PATCH 0/2] platform/x86: msi-wmi-platform: Fix autoloading

[Armin Wolf]

Am 10.11.25 um 18:14 schrieb Ilpo Järvinen:

> On Mon, 10 Nov 2025, Antheas Kapenekakis wrote:
> > On Mon, 10 Nov 2025 at 12:13, Armin Wolf <W_Armin@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > > As already noted by Antheas Kapenekakis back in May, the
> > > msi-wmi-platform driver fails to automatically load on MSI Claw
> > > devices. Back then i suspected an issue with the device firmware,
> > > however i just found out that i made a silly mistake when specifying
> > > the GUID string of the driver, preventing the WMI driver core from
> > > matching it to its WMI device.
> > > Additionally i noticed that said GUID was copied from the Windows
> > > driver samples, meaning that it might be shared across different
> > > vendors. Because of this we have to prevent this driver from loading
> > > on non-MSI devices.
> > >
> > > Compile-tested only.
> > Works great. Module loads normally without intervention from userspace.
> >
> > I could not find an online reference for our discussion so I omit the close tag.
> >
> > Replying to the cover applies to all patches if my understanding is correct.
> >
> > Reported-by: Antheas Kapenekakis <lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Antheas Kapenekakis <lkml@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Thanks, I've added these tags to the commits.
Thank you both for the quick reply :)

Thanks,
Armin Wolf