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platform/x86: dell-wmi-descriptor: split WMI descriptor into it's own driver
authorMario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
Wed, 1 Nov 2017 19:25:27 +0000 (14:25 -0500)
committerDarren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
Fri, 3 Nov 2017 23:33:58 +0000 (16:33 -0700)
commit92b8c540bce7b1662212dff35f503f5b1266725b
tree21e0a8e27544bfda4c8f1a3c9b627b438b443167
parentfa9f924c7ff95f9299e11657c4441288d7f01dbd
platform/x86: dell-wmi-descriptor: split WMI descriptor into it's own driver

All communication on individual GUIDs should occur in separate drivers.
Allowing a driver to communicate with the bus to another GUID is just
a hack that discourages drivers to adopt the bus model.

The information found from the WMI descriptor driver is now exported
for use by other drivers.

Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
Reviewed-by: Edward O'Callaghan <quasisec@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
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drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
drivers/platform/x86/Makefile
drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi-descriptor.c [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi-descriptor.h [new file with mode: 0644]
drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c