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diff --git a/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst b/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst index 6ca58c8249e5..4e8dbdb1fc67 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst +++ b/Documentation/driver-api/wmi.rst @@ -7,12 +7,11 @@ WMI Driver API The WMI driver core supports a more modern bus-based interface for interacting with WMI devices, and an older GUID-based interface. The latter interface is considered to be deprecated, so new WMI drivers should generally avoid it since -it has some issues with multiple WMI devices and events sharing the same GUIDs -and/or notification IDs. The modern bus-based interface instead maps each -WMI device to a :c:type:`struct wmi_device <wmi_device>`, so it supports -WMI devices sharing GUIDs and/or notification IDs. Drivers can then register -a :c:type:`struct wmi_driver <wmi_driver>`, which will be bound to compatible -WMI devices by the driver core. +it has some issues with multiple WMI devices sharing the same GUID. +The modern bus-based interface instead maps each WMI device to a +:c:type:`struct wmi_device <wmi_device>`, so it supports WMI devices sharing the +same GUID. Drivers can then register a :c:type:`struct wmi_driver <wmi_driver>` +which will be bound to compatible WMI devices by the driver core. .. kernel-doc:: include/linux/wmi.h :internal: |