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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/wmi/acpi-interface.rst | 14 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/wmi/acpi-interface.rst b/Documentation/wmi/acpi-interface.rst index f1b28835d23c..1ef003b033bf 100644 --- a/Documentation/wmi/acpi-interface.rst +++ b/Documentation/wmi/acpi-interface.rst @@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ Offset Size (in bytes) Content The WMI object flags control whether the method or notification ID is used: -- 0x1: Data block usage is expensive and must be explicitly enabled/disabled. +- 0x1: Data block is expensive to collect. - 0x2: Data block contains WMI methods. - 0x4: Data block contains ASCIZ string. - 0x8: Data block describes a WMI event, use notification ID instead @@ -83,14 +83,18 @@ event as hexadecimal value. Their first parameter is an integer with a value of 0 if the WMI event should be disabled, other values will enable the WMI event. +Those ACPI methods are always called even for WMI events not registered as +being expensive to collect to match the behavior of the Windows driver. + WCxx ACPI methods ----------------- -Similar to the ``WExx`` ACPI methods, except that it controls data collection -instead of events and thus the last two characters of the ACPI method name are -the method ID of the data block to enable/disable. +Similar to the ``WExx`` ACPI methods, except that instead of WMI events it controls +data collection of data blocks registered as being expensive to collect. Thus the +last two characters of the ACPI method name are the method ID of the data block +to enable/disable. Those ACPI methods are also called before setting data blocks to match the -behaviour of the Windows driver. +behavior of the Windows driver. _WED ACPI method ---------------- |