Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1032354AbdDTORV (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:17:21 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([65.50.211.133]:36814 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1032186AbdDTORS (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Apr 2017 10:17:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 07:17:07 -0700 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Pali =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roh=E1r?= Cc: Mario.Limonciello@dell.com, dvhart@infradead.org, rjw@rjwysocki.net, luto@amacapital.net, len.brown@intel.com, corentin.chary@gmail.com, luto@kernel.org, andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFC: WMI Enhancements Message-ID: <20170420141707.GA22057@infradead.org> References: <20170412230854.GA11963@fury> <20170419075248.GD18887@pali> <201704191854.51783@pali> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201704191854.51783@pali> User-Agent: Mutt/1.8.0 (2017-02-23) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org. See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 318 Lines: 5 With Andy's conversion of WMI to the driver model the GUIDs should be our device ids. Which means WMI can support the dynamic device ID model, where you can echo a id to sysfs to bind an id - that way people could add the GUIDs on demand to the pass through driver if they need them even with the whitelist approach.