Documentation/wmi/driver-development-guide.rst

9 as an introductory guide for WMI driver writers using this API. It is supposed
11 using the deprecated GUID-based WMI interface.
18 used to extract detailed WMI device information using the following command:
41 method associated with a given WMI device can be retrieved using the ``lswmi`` utility
52 to matching WMI devices using a struct wmi_device_id table:
92 and are forbidden from using any deprecated GUID-based WMI functions. This means that the
99 .. warning:: Using both GUID-based and non-GUID-based functions for querying WMI data blocks and
106 WMI drivers can call WMI device methods using wmidev_evaluate_method(), the
113 The maximum instance number can be retrieved during runtime using wmidev_instance_count().
120 WMI drivers can query WMI device data blocks using wmidev_block_query(), the
122 also allow for setting data blocks using wmidev_block_set().
124 The maximum instance number can also be retrieved using wmidev_instance_count().
152 There are many cases of firmware vendors using multiple WMI devices to control different aspects
163 then process the event further for example by using an input device.