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There is a lot of error checking in place for the format of the WMI descriptor buffer, but some of the potentially raised issues should be considered critical failures. If the buffer size or header don't match, this is a good indication that the buffer format changed in a way that the rest of the data should not be relied upon. For the remaining data set vectors, continue to notate a warning in undefined results, but as those are fields that the descriptor intended to refer to other applications, don't fail if they're new values. Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com> Reviewed-by: Edward O'Callaghan <quasisec@google.com> Reviewed-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Darren Hart (VMware) <dvhart@infradead.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.