wmidev_block_query(9)

wmidev_block_query(9) — Kernel API Manual 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the wmidev_block_query(9) page in the Kernel API Manual — it’s giving “deprectated WMI block query” energy, and we’re gonna get through it together. no cap. 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

• wmidev_block_query — Return contents of a WMI block (deprectated) 💖

🔥 SYNOPSIS 🔥

union acpi_object * wmidev_block_query (struct wmi_device *wdev , u8
       instance );

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• wdev — a wmi bus device from a driver 🫶
• instance — instance index 🔢

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so you’re querying an ACPI-WMI block. iconic. but bestie, listen: the caller must free the result — that means you, and yes it matters. 😭

🌸 RETURN 🌸

An ACPI object containing the content of the WMI block ✨

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• Kernel file ./drivers/platform/wmi/core.c
• wmi_instance_count(9)
• wmidev_instance_count(9)
• wmi_evaluate_method(9)
• wmidev_evaluate_method(9)
• wmidev_invoke_method(9)
• wmidev_invoke_procedure(9)
• wmi_query_block(9)
• wmidev_query_block(9)
• wmi_set_block(9)
• wmidev_block_set(9)
• wmidev_set_block(9)
• wmi_install_notify_handler(9)
• wmi_remove_notify_handler(9)
• wmi_has_guid(9)
• wmi_get_acpi_device_uid(9)
• wmi_driver_unregister(9)

that’s the whole page, bestie — source/version: ./drivers/platform/wmi, dated October 2026, for wmidev_block_query(9). slay, go free that result 💋💖