From: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
To: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Cc: Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>,
Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>,
platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] platform: x86: dell-smbios: Add a generic dell-smbios notifier chain
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:43:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161024134339.GE12154@pali> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4cdb7bb1-2b16-e009-3309-433b1a306d54@redhat.com>
On Monday 24 October 2016 15:37:31 Hans de Goede wrote:
> Well WMI events get enabled via a SMBIOS call,
This is truth only for few laptops and only for one WMI event.
Everything else is automatically enabled, no call is needed to issue.
> and dell-laptop uses SMBIOS exclusively
IIRC dell-led.ko uses also dell-smbio.ko, so it is not exclusive for
dell-laptop.
> so it seems to fit. Basically this is a case of
> we have to put this somewhere and dell-smbios is the best fit IMHO.
Agree, we need to put it somewhere...
Basically we need to solve problem how (currently) 3 kernel modules can
communicate. Does not kernel support such "bus/event" mechanism for
this?
--
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-24 13:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-23 19:46 [PATCH v2 1/4] leds: core: Add support for poll()ing the sysfs brightness attr for changes Hans de Goede
2016-10-23 19:46 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] platform: x86: dell-smbios: Add a generic dell-smbios notifier chain Hans de Goede
2016-10-24 13:31 ` Pali Rohár
2016-10-24 13:37 ` Hans de Goede
2016-10-24 13:43 ` Pali Rohár [this message]
2016-10-24 13:45 ` Hans de Goede
2016-10-27 10:32 ` Pali Rohár
2016-10-27 12:45 ` Hans de Goede
2016-10-27 12:51 ` Pali Rohár
2016-10-27 12:54 ` Hans de Goede
2016-10-27 12:57 ` Pali Rohár
2016-10-23 19:46 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] platform: x86: dell-*: Call led_notify_brightness_change on kbd brightness change Hans de Goede
2016-10-24 13:34 ` Pali Rohár
2016-10-24 13:43 ` Hans de Goede
2016-10-24 13:51 ` Pali Rohár
2016-10-24 13:57 ` Hans de Goede
2016-10-24 14:10 ` Pali Rohár
2016-10-23 19:46 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] platform: x86: dell-*: Simplify dell-rbtn integration with dell-laptop [untested] Hans de Goede
2016-10-24 20:43 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] leds: core: Add support for poll()ing the sysfs brightness attr for changes Jacek Anaszewski
2016-10-26 15:18 ` Hans de Goede
2016-10-27 6:58 ` Jacek Anaszewski
2016-10-27 7:33 ` Hans de Goede
2016-10-27 8:03 ` Jacek Anaszewski
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