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WMI strings are encoded using UTF16-LE characters, forcing WMI drivers to manually convert them to/from standard UTF8 strings. Add a two helper functions for those tasks. Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260116204116.4030-4-W_Armin@gmx.de Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
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WMI Driver API
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==============
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The WMI driver core supports a more modern bus-based interface for interacting
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with WMI devices, and an older GUID-based interface. The latter interface is
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considered to be deprecated, so new WMI drivers should generally avoid it since
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it has some issues with multiple WMI devices sharing the same GUID.
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The modern bus-based interface instead maps each WMI device to a
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:c:type:`struct wmi_device <wmi_device>`, so it supports WMI devices sharing the
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same GUID. Drivers can then register a :c:type:`struct wmi_driver <wmi_driver>`
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which will be bound to compatible WMI devices by the driver core.
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.. kernel-doc:: include/linux/wmi.h
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:internal:
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.. kernel-doc:: drivers/platform/wmi/string.c
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:export:
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.. kernel-doc:: drivers/platform/wmi/core.c
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:export:
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