From: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
To: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net>,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@gmail.com>,
Mario Limonciello <Mario_Limonciello@Dell.com>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:33:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170413073339.GH3090@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170412230854.GA11963@fury>
On Wednesday 12 April 2017 16:08:54 Darren Hart wrote:
> In Windows, applications interact with WMI more or less directly. We don't do
> this in Linux currently, although it has been discussed in the past [3]. Some
> vendors will work around this by performing SMI/SMM, which is inefficient at
> best. Exposing WMI methods to userspace would bring parity to WMI for Linux and
> Windows.
Maybe we should first ask, why linux userspace applications need direct
access to WMI? If we look at current WMI linux drivers, basically every
one translate WMI interface to some standard linux class driver (with
some extensions). This is something which should stay in kernel. E.g.
rfkill, backlight, led, input keyboard, ...
--
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-13 7:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-12 23:08 RFC: WMI Enhancements Darren Hart
2017-04-13 7:32 ` Michał Kępień
2017-04-13 13:29 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 13:51 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-13 15:34 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 15:40 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 16:06 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 15:40 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-18 7:36 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-04-18 14:08 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 15:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 15:39 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-13 15:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 16:09 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 15:55 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 15:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 16:54 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 17:06 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 17:39 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 17:44 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 17:49 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-18 7:54 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-18 16:56 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-18 19:28 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-13 17:02 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 17:32 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-13 17:45 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 16:08 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 7:33 ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2017-04-13 16:56 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-13 20:38 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-13 23:51 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-14 17:42 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-14 18:27 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-14 19:04 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-14 22:45 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-04-14 23:05 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-17 22:03 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-04-17 23:10 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-18 13:07 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2017-04-18 16:33 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-18 19:28 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-18 22:49 ` Darren Hart
2017-04-19 7:52 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-19 16:29 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-19 16:54 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-19 17:24 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-04-20 13:14 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-20 20:44 ` Darren Hart
2017-05-05 21:55 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-05 23:44 ` Darren Hart
2017-05-06 0:51 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-06 1:25 ` Andy Lutomirski
2017-05-08 15:29 ` Darren Hart
2017-05-08 15:36 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 15:47 ` Darren Hart
2017-05-08 16:00 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 16:04 ` Andy Shevchenko
[not found] ` <CAOg5c--wkQgvsmhTynAKyG9iWaHjRWC5Z+MXzVJVw66vxSz4Zw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-05-08 18:26 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 19:09 ` Darren Hart
2017-05-08 19:11 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 17:17 ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-08 19:21 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 20:59 ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-08 21:18 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-08 22:17 ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-09 1:10 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-09 7:29 ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-09 18:10 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-09 19:04 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-05-09 19:16 ` Mario.Limonciello
2017-05-09 19:26 ` Andy Shevchenko
2017-05-09 22:38 ` Pali Rohár
2017-05-09 19:19 ` Pali Rohár
2017-04-20 14:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2017-04-18 21:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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