ACPI: WMI: Improve Kconfig description
As Pavel Machek has pointed out, the Kconfig entry for WMI is pretty non-descriptive. Rewrite it so that it explains what ACPI-WMI is, and why anyone would want to enable it. Many thanks to Ray Lee for ideas on this. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> CC: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> CC: Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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depends on X86
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depends on EXPERIMENTAL
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help
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This driver adds support for the ACPI-WMI mapper device (PNP0C14)
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found on some systems.
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This driver adds support for the ACPI-WMI (Windows Management
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Instrumentation) mapper device (PNP0C14) found on some systems.
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NOTE: You will need another driver or userspace application on top of
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this to actually use anything defined in the ACPI-WMI mapper.
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ACPI-WMI is a proprietary extension to ACPI to expose parts of the
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ACPI firmware to userspace - this is done through various vendor
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defined methods and data blocks in a PNP0C14 device, which are then
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made available for userspace to call.
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The implementation of this in Linux currently only exposes this to
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other kernel space drivers.
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This driver is a required dependency to build the firmware specific
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drivers needed on many machines, including Acer and HP laptops.
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It is safe to enable this driver even if your DSDT doesn't define
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any ACPI-WMI devices.
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config ACPI_ASUS
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tristate "ASUS/Medion Laptop Extras"
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