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platform/x86: wmi: Add device specific documentation 

Add a place for device-specific documentation of WMI drivers.
The first entry is documentation for the wmi-bmof driver, with
additional documentation being expected to follow.

Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Tested-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230424222939.208137-5-W_Armin@gmx.de
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
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What: /sys/bus/wmi/devices/05901221-D566-11D1-B2F0-00A0C9062910[-X]/bmof
Date: Jun 2017
KernelVersion: 4.13
Description:
Binary MOF metadata used to decribe the details of available ACPI WMI interfaces.
See Documentation/wmi/devices/wmi-bmof.rst for details.

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
=============================
Driver-specific Documentation
=============================
This section provides information about various devices supported by
the Linux kernel, their protocols and driver details.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
:numbered:
:glob:
*
.. only:: subproject and html
Indices
=======
* :ref:`genindex`

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
==============================
WMI embedded Binary MOF driver
==============================
Introduction
============
Many machines embed WMI Binary MOF (Managed Object Format) metadata used to
describe the details of their ACPI WMI interfaces. The data can be decoded
with tools like `bmfdec <https://github.com/pali/bmfdec>`_ to obtain a
human readable WMI interface description, which is useful for developing
new WMI drivers.
The Binary MOF data can be retrieved from the ``bmof`` sysfs attribute of the
associated WMI device. Please note that multiple WMI devices containing Binary
MOF data can exist on a given system.
WMI interface
=============
The Binary MOF WMI device is identified by the WMI GUID ``05901221-D566-11D1-B2F0-00A0C9062910``.
The Binary MOF can be obtained by doing a WMI data block query. The result is
then returned as an ACPI buffer with a variable size.

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:maxdepth: 1
acpi-interface
devices/index
.. only:: subproject and html

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S: Odd fixes
F: drivers/net/wireless/legacy/wl3501*
WMI BINARY MOF DRIVER
L: platform-drivers-x86@vger.kernel.org
S: Orphan
F: Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-platform-wmi-bmof
F: Documentation/wmi/devices/wmi-bmof.rst
F: drivers/platform/x86/wmi-bmof.c
WOLFSON MICROELECTRONICS DRIVERS
L: patches@opensource.cirrus.com
S: Supported

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default ACPI_WMI
help
Say Y here if you want to be able to read a firmware-embedded
WMI Binary MOF data. Using this requires userspace tools and may be
rather tedious.
WMI Binary MOF (Managed Object Format) data. Using this requires
userspace tools and may be rather tedious.
To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module will
be called wmi-bmof.