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authorJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2024-03-22 02:14:13 +0300
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>2024-03-22 02:15:08 +0300
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Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Cross-merge networking fixes after downstream PR. Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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@@ -93,4 +93,7 @@ _WED ACPI method
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Used to retrieve additional WMI event data, its single parameter is a integer
-holding the notification ID of the event.
+holding the notification ID of the event. This method should be evaluated every
+time an ACPI notification is received, since some ACPI implementations use a
+queue to store WMI event data items. This queue will overflow after a couple
+of WMI events are received without retrieving the associated WMI event data.