Re: [PATCH 2/2] platform/x86: wmi: Allow creating WMI devices with the same GUID

2017-12-09 Thread Andy Lutomirski
On Fri, Dec 8, 2017 at 6:34 PM, Mario Limonciello wrote: > In: commit d1f9e4970742 ("ACPI: WMI: Survive BIOS with duplicate GUIDs") > parsing two of the same GUID was prevented in the WMI bus driver. > > At the time no one understood why GUID 05901221-D566-11D1-B2F0-00A0C9062910 > was being duplic

[PATCH 2/2] platform/x86: wmi: Allow creating WMI devices with the same GUID

2017-12-08 Thread Mario Limonciello
In: commit d1f9e4970742 ("ACPI: WMI: Survive BIOS with duplicate GUIDs") parsing two of the same GUID was prevented in the WMI bus driver. At the time no one understood why GUID 05901221-D566-11D1-B2F0-00A0C9062910 was being duplicated. It's now known that GUID is used for the binary MOF file of