These ACPI warnings are harmless most of time, but that also depends on what 
ACPI BIOS does on your systems.
=====================================
[ 0.659825] wmi_bus wmi_bus-PNP0C14:00: WQBC data block query control method 
not found

WQBC is required according to WMI spec and implementation on this system
but this is missing. This can cause some OEM features from working;
however, many OEM WMI features (like hotkeys) aren't implemented on
Linux in the first place.

=====================================
[ 0.659921] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001828-0x000000000000182F 
conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001800-0x000000000000183F 
(\_SB.PCI0.EHC2.E1PM) (20190816/utaddress-204)
[ 0.661768] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001828-0x000000000000182F 
conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001800-0x000000000000183F 
(\_SB.PCI0.EHC1.E1PM) (20190816/utaddress-204)
[ 0.663121] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 0x0000000000001828-0x000000000000182F 
conflicts with OpRegion 0x0000000000001800-0x000000000000187F (\PMIO) 
(20190816/utaddress-204)
[ 0.664516] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you should 
use it instead of the native driver

These complains that ACPI BIOS wants to access hardware registers, and
OS never likes BIOS to access without going through device drivers.
Without BIOS's ACPI code (sudo acpidump > acpi.log), it is not possible
to do further analysis; however, it may be the same or similar to
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Laptops/Dell_Latitude_E7240_i5-4310U. If this
is the case, it is for USB2 power management.

Unless you have USB 2 problems you don't need to worry about them
either.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1890467

Title:
  wmi_bus wmi_bus-PNP0C14:00: WQBC data block query control method not
  found

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I run the kernel 5.4.0-42-generic on a fully up-to-date Ubuntu "focal" on 
Dell Latitude E6440.
  While scrolling through the output of `journalctl -b` I came across a warning 
(marked yellow):

  [    0.659825] wmi_bus wmi_bus-PNP0C14:00: WQBC data block query
  control method not found

  Now, since this is a warning, I get, ergo, warned.  What is it that I
  get warned about?  Is it just a printf or is some action required?  As
  every computer, the laptop suffers from various problems from time to
  time (e.g., boot or wakeup silently hangs up while the manufacturer
  splash screen is displayed), so, I don't know whether this message
  could be related to any of such problems.

  Here is the context of this warning in dmesg:

  # dmesg | grep -B 10 -A 5 "method not found"
  [    0.518379] rtc_cmos 00:02: setting system clock to 2020-08-05T15:23:54 
UTC (1596641034)
  [    0.519455] Freeing unused decrypted memory: 2040K
  [    0.520119] Freeing unused kernel image memory: 2712K
  [    0.531430] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 22528k
  [    0.532242] Freeing unused kernel image memory: 2008K
  [    0.532805] Freeing unused kernel image memory: 1192K
  [    0.540186] x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
  [    0.540514] x86/mm: Checking user space page tables
  [    0.547468] x86/mm: Checked W+X mappings: passed, no W+X pages found.
  [    0.547786] Run /init as init process
  [    0.659825] wmi_bus wmi_bus-PNP0C14:00: WQBC data block query control 
method not found
  [    0.659921] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 
0x0000000000001828-0x000000000000182F conflicts with OpRegion 
0x0000000000001800-0x000000000000183F (\_SB.PCI0.EHC2.E1PM) 
(20190816/utaddress-204)
  [    0.661768] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 
0x0000000000001828-0x000000000000182F conflicts with OpRegion 
0x0000000000001800-0x000000000000183F (\_SB.PCI0.EHC1.E1PM) 
(20190816/utaddress-204)
  [    0.663121] ACPI Warning: SystemIO range 
0x0000000000001828-0x000000000000182F conflicts with OpRegion 
0x0000000000001800-0x000000000000187F (\PMIO) (20190816/utaddress-204)
  [    0.664516] ACPI: If an ACPI driver is available for this device, you 
should use it instead of the native driver
  [    0.666167] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 3.2.6-k

  Some more info:

  # ls -la /sys/devices/platform/PNP0C14:00
  drwxr-xr-x  4 root root    0 Aug  5 17:23 .
  drwxr-xr-x 29 root root    0 Aug  5 17:23 ..
  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 Aug  5 17:23 driver -> 
../../../bus/platform/drivers/acpi-wmi
  -rw-r--r--  1 root root 4096 Aug  5 18:09 driver_override
  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 Aug  5 18:09 firmware_node -> 
../../LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0C14:00
  -r--r--r--  1 root root 4096 Aug  5 18:09 modalias
  drwxr-xr-x  2 root root    0 Aug  5 18:09 power
  lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    0 Aug  5 17:23 subsystem -> ../../../bus/platform
  -rw-r--r--  1 root root 4096 Aug  5 17:23 uevent
  drwxr-xr-x  3 root root    0 Aug  5 17:23 wmi_bus
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