From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pali =?utf-8?B?Um9ow6Fy?= 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 Message-ID: <20161024134339.GE12154@pali> References: <20161023194652.24335-1-hdegoede@redhat.com> <20161023194652.24335-2-hdegoede@redhat.com> <20161024133105.GC12154@pali> <4cdb7bb1-2b16-e009-3309-433b1a306d54@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4cdb7bb1-2b16-e009-3309-433b1a306d54@redhat.com> Sender: platform-driver-x86-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Hans de Goede Cc: Darren Hart , Matthew Garrett , Richard Purdie , Jacek Anaszewski , platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org 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