platform/x86: wmi: Move WMI core code into a separate directory

Move the WMI core code into a separate directory to prepare for
future additions to the WMI driver. Also update the description
of the Kconfig entry to better fit with the other subsystem
Kconfig entries.

Signed-off-by: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251111131125.3379-5-W_Armin@gmx.de
Reviewed-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>

7 files changed, 45 insertions, 31 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/platform/Kconfig b/drivers/platform/Kconfig
index 960fd6a82450..6bb645aed3d1 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/platform/Kconfig
@@ -18,3 +18,5 @@ source "drivers/platform/surface/Kconfig"
 source "drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig"
 
 source "drivers/platform/arm64/Kconfig"
+
+source "drivers/platform/wmi/Kconfig"
diff --git a/drivers/platform/Makefile b/drivers/platform/Makefile
index 19ac54648586..533f500dfcff 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/platform/Makefile
@@ -13,3 +13,4 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_CHROME_PLATFORMS)	+= chrome/
 obj-$(CONFIG_CZNIC_PLATFORMS)	+= cznic/
 obj-$(CONFIG_SURFACE_PLATFORMS)	+= surface/
 obj-$(CONFIG_ARM64_PLATFORM_DEVICES)	+= arm64/
+obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_WMI)		+= wmi/
diff --git a/drivers/platform/wmi/Kconfig b/drivers/platform/wmi/Kconfig
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..77fcbb18746b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/platform/wmi/Kconfig
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+#
+# ACPI WMI Core
+#
+
+menuconfig ACPI_WMI
+	tristate "ACPI-WMI support"
+	depends on ACPI && X86
+	help
+	  This option enables support for the ACPI-WMI driver core.
+
+	  The ACPI-WMI interface is a proprietary extension of ACPI allowing
+	  the platform firmware to expose WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation)
+	  objects used for managing various aspects of the underlying system.
+	  Mapping between ACPI control methods and WMI objects happens through
+	  special mapper devices (PNP0C14) defined inside the ACPI tables.
+
+	  Enabling this option is necessary for building the vendor specific
+	  ACPI-WMI client drivers for Acer, Dell an HP machines (among others).
+
+	  It is safe to enable this option even for machines that do not contain
+	  any ACPI-WMI mapper devices at all.
+
+if ACPI_WMI
+
+config ACPI_WMI_LEGACY_DEVICE_NAMES
+	bool "Use legacy WMI device naming scheme"
+	help
+	  Say Y here to force the WMI driver core to use the old WMI device naming
+	  scheme when creating WMI devices. Doing so might be necessary for some
+	  userspace applications but will cause the registration of WMI devices with
+	  the same GUID to fail in some corner cases.
+
+endif # ACPI_WMI
diff --git a/drivers/platform/wmi/Makefile b/drivers/platform/wmi/Makefile
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..98393d7391ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/platform/wmi/Makefile
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+#
+# Makefile for linux/drivers/platform/wmi
+# ACPI WMI core
+#
+
+wmi-y			:= core.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_WMI)	+= wmi.o
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c b/drivers/platform/wmi/core.c
index 6878c4fcb0b5..6878c4fcb0b5 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/wmi.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/wmi/core.c
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
index 0a8025a16778..245c5f5778f2 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig
@@ -16,36 +16,6 @@ menuconfig X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES
 
 if X86_PLATFORM_DEVICES
 
-config ACPI_WMI
-	tristate "WMI"
-	depends on ACPI
-	help
-	  This driver adds support for the ACPI-WMI (Windows Management
-	  Instrumentation) mapper device (PNP0C14) found on some systems.
-
-	  ACPI-WMI is a proprietary extension to ACPI to expose parts of the
-	  ACPI firmware to userspace - this is done through various vendor
-	  defined methods and data blocks in a PNP0C14 device, which are then
-	  made available for userspace to call.
-
-	  The implementation of this in Linux currently only exposes this to
-	  other kernel space drivers.
-
-	  This driver is a required dependency to build the firmware specific
-	  drivers needed on many machines, including Acer and HP laptops.
-
-	  It is safe to enable this driver even if your DSDT doesn't define
-	  any ACPI-WMI devices.
-
-config ACPI_WMI_LEGACY_DEVICE_NAMES
-	bool "Use legacy WMI device naming scheme"
-	depends on ACPI_WMI
-	help
-	  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.
-
 config WMI_BMOF
 	tristate "WMI embedded Binary MOF driver"
 	depends on ACPI_WMI
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/Makefile b/drivers/platform/x86/Makefile
index d59a2ed5932c..ce3423749af5 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/Makefile
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 #
 
 # Windows Management Interface
-obj-$(CONFIG_ACPI_WMI)		+= wmi.o
 obj-$(CONFIG_WMI_BMOF)		+= wmi-bmof.o
 
 # WMI drivers