RE: [PATCH 15/16] platform/x86: wmi-mof: New driver to expose embedded WMI MOF metadata

From: Mario.Limonciello
Date: Wed Jun 07 2017 - 16:23:16 EST


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> From: Pali RohÃr [mailto:pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx]
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> Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/16] platform/x86: wmi-mof: New driver to expose
> embedded WMI MOF metadata
>
> On Tuesday 06 June 2017 15:56:21 Pali RohÃr wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 June 2017 13:46:16 Mario.Limonciello@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > 2) On my system when you expand the arguments for "void DoBFn" the
> > > source doesn't describe individual arguments like you do. Again
> > > this might not matter to MOF parsing tools but wanted to let you
> > > know in case it does.
> >
> > I know, this part is missing. Order of arguments are only in ID
> > qualifier and not sorted + in/out de-duplicated.
>
> Implemented! Now arguments are correctly placed based on ID qualifier.
I think it's still off a little though.

What I'm getting back now from bmf2mof is:
void DoBFn([in, Description("Fn buf"), out] BDat Data);

Whereas source puts Description as the last argument:
void DoBFn([in, out, Description("Fn buf")] BDat Data);

>
> > > source:
> > > void DoBFn([in, out, Description("Fn buf")] BDat Data);
> > >
> > > bmf2mof:
> > > void doBFn([in, Description("Fn buf"), ID(0)] BDat Data, [out,
> > > Description("Fn buf"), ID(0)] BDat Data);
>
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> Pali RohÃr
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