CONFIG_ACPI_WMI_LEGACY_DEVICE_NAMES: Use legacy WMI device naming scheme

General informations

The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_ACPI_WMI_LEGACY_DEVICE_NAMES:

• prompt: Use legacy WMI device naming scheme
• type: bool
• depends on: CONFIG_ACPI_WMI
• defined in drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
• found in Linux kernels: 6.17-rc+HEAD

Help text

Say Y here to force the WMI driver core to use the old WMI device naming scheme when creating WMI devices. Doing so might be necessary for some userspace applications but will cause the registration of WMI devices with the same GUID to fail in some corner cases.

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