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Date:   Fri, 8 Dec 2023 15:43:23 +0200 (EET)
From:   =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Ilpo_J=E4rvinen?= <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
To:     Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] platform/x86: wmi: Remove chardev interface
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On Thu, 7 Dec 2023, Armin Wolf wrote:

> The design of the WMI chardev interface is broken:
> - it assumes that WMI drivers are not instantiated twice
> - it offers next to no abstractions, the WMI driver gets
> a raw byte buffer
> - it is only used by a single driver, something which is
> unlikely to change
> 
> Since the only user (dell-smbios-wmi) has been migrated
> to his own ioctl interface, remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>

Reviewed-by: Ilpo J?rvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>

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