Re: [PATCH 0/3] Add support for hidden choices to platform_profile

["Ilpo Järvinen" <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>]

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On Fri, 28 Feb 2025, Mario Limonciello wrote:

> From: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
> 
> When two drivers provide platform profile handlers but use different
> strings to mean (essentially) the same thing the legacy interface won't
> export them because it only shows profiles common to multiple drivers.
> 
> This causes an unexpected behavior to people who have upgraded from an
> earlier kernel because if multiple drivers have bound platform profile
> handlers they might not be able to access profiles they were expecting.
> 
> Introduce a concept of a "hidden choice" that drivers can register and
> the platform profile handler code will utilize when using the legacy
> interface.
> 
> There have been some other attempts at solving this issue in other ways.
> This serves as an alternative to those attempts.
> 
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/e64b771e-3255-42ad-9257-5b8fc6c24ac9@gmx.de/T/#t
> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/platform-driver-x86/CAGwozwF-WVEgiAbWbRCiUaXf=BVa3KqmMJfs06trdMQHpTGmjQ@mail.gmail.com/T/#m2f3929e2d4f73cc0eedd14738170dad45232fd18
> Cc: Antheas Kapenekakis <lkml@antheas.dev>
> Cc: "Luke D. Jones" <luke@ljones.dev>
> 
> Mario Limonciello (3):
>   ACPI: platform_profile: Add support for hidden choices
>   platform/x86/amd: pmf: Add 'quiet' to hidden choices
>   platform/x86/amd: pmf: Add balanced-performance to hidden choices
> 
>  drivers/acpi/platform_profile.c    | 94 +++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmf/sps.c | 11 ++++
>  include/linux/platform_profile.h   |  3 +
>  3 files changed, 87 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> 
> 

Acked-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@linux.intel.com>

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