On Thursday 07 February 2008 16:47, Pavel Machek wrote:
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> 
> See? It even has completely useless help text.
> 
> Does WMI stand for Windows Management Instrumentation? It is some
> server management feature? What is it good for?

Thank you for the feedback, Pavel.

There is an additional patch which creates
Documentation/acpi/wmi.txt, but I witheld it from
this batch because it needs to be revised.
If you are not subscribed to the linux-acpi list
you can find it here:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-acpi&m=120217838010224&w=2

Clearly we neeed to update the Kconfig doc as well when
we revise and push that patch.

-Len

ps. the answers to your questions are "yes" and "see NOTE" below.

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>   WMI (EXPERIMENTAL) (ACPI_WMI) [N/m/y/?] (NEW) ?
> 
> This driver adds support for the ACPI-WMI mapper device (PNP0C14)
> found on some systems.
> 
> NOTE: You will need another driver or userspace application on top of
> this to actually use anything defined in the ACPI-WMI mapper.
> 
> 
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