Re: [PATCH 04/12] platform/x86: dell-smbios: Switch to a WMI-ACPI interface

[Andy Lutomirski]

On 09/21/2017 06:57 AM, Mario Limonciello wrote:
> The driver currently uses an SMI interface which grants direct access
> to physical memory to the platform via a pointer.
>
> Changing this to operate over WMI-ACPI will use an ACPI OperationRegion
> for a buffer of data storage when platform calls are performed.
>
> This is a safer approach to use in kernel drivers as the platform will
> only have access to that OperationRegion.
>
> As a result, this change removes the dependency on this driver on the
> dcdbas kernel module.

> +	status = wmi_evaluate_method(DELL_WMI_SMBIOS_GUID,
> +				     0, 1, &input, &output);

It might be nice to add a wmidev_method_evaluate(struct wmi_device 
*wdev, ...) function to better aligh with the new world order.  The only 
reason I didn't do it is that I didn't convert any drivers that wanted it.