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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Nick Crews <ncrews@chromium.org>
Cc: enric.balletbo@collabora.com, bleung@chromium.org,
	linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dlaurie@chromium.org,
	derat@google.com, groeck@google.com, dtor@google.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: Add Wilco EC keyboard backlight LEDs support
Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 22:08:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190308210843.GA16125@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190308203801.57920-1-ncrews@chromium.org>

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On Fri 2019-03-08 13:38:02, Nick Crews wrote:
> This patch is meant to be applied on top of the for-next
> branch of the platform/chrome repository, as it uses some of
> the code staged there.
> 
> The EC is in charge of controlling the keyboard backlight on
> the Wilco platform. We expose a standard LED class device at
> /sys/class/leds/wilco::kbd_backlight. This driver is modeled
> after the standard Chrome OS keyboard backlight driver at
> drivers/platform/chrome/cros_kbd_led_backlight.c

Can you make it "platform::kbd_backlight"? We want some consistency
there.

> Some Wilco devices do not support a keyboard backlight. This
> is checked in probe(), and in this case the sysfs entry will
> not appear, and everything will behave normally.

Good.

> When the EC is reset (loses all AC and battery power), it will
> restart in some unpredictable state. The brightness on the
> keyboard could be anything, and reading the brightness
> from the EC is undefined behavior. Therefore, at startup the
> brightness should be set, and then everything will work.

Really? Undefined behavior? 

> index e09e4cebe9b4..15b56f5ce090 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/chrome/wilco_ec/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/platform/chrome/wilco_ec/Kconfig
> @@ -18,3 +18,12 @@ config WILCO_EC_DEBUGFS
>  	  manipulation and allow for testing arbitrary commands.  This
>  	  interface is intended for debug only and will not be present
>  	  on production devices.
> +
> +config WILCO_EC_KBD_BACKLIGHT
> +	tristate "Enable keyboard led backlight control"

Delete "led" or make it "LED".

> +	depends on WILCO_EC
> +	help
> +	  If you say Y here, you get support to set the keyboard backlight led

Same here.

> +#define DRV_NAME		"wilco-kbd-backlight"
> +
> +#define EC_COMMAND_KB_BKLIGHT	0x75
> +#define KBBL_MSG_SIZE		16
> +/* The EC can set the backlight brightness in several different modes.
> +The mode we care about is PWM mode, where we separately supply a
> +literal percentage to set the brightness to. We need to set the proper
> +KBBL_PWM_MODE flag in the KBBL_MODE_INDEX-th byte in the message, and
> +then supply the percentage within the KBBL_BRIGHTNESS_INDEX-th byte
> +within the message. When we read the brightness, the percentage is
> +returned in this same byte location. */

Please use comment style specified in CodingStyle.

Best regards,
									Pavel
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  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-08 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-08 20:38 [PATCH] platform/chrome: Add Wilco EC keyboard backlight LEDs support Nick Crews
2019-03-08 21:08 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2019-03-11 15:29   ` Nick Crews
2019-04-04 11:24     ` Pavel Machek
2019-04-04 14:11       ` Nick Crews
2019-04-04 16:13       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-04-04 19:03         ` Pavel Machek
2019-04-04 19:09           ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-04-04 19:23             ` Pavel Machek
2019-04-04 20:07               ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-04-04 20:11                 ` Pavel Machek
2019-04-04 20:22                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-04-04 20:34                     ` Pavel Machek
2019-03-08 22:01 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2019-03-08 22:13   ` Pavel Machek
     [not found]     ` <CAHX4x84pgHeseVphBUq0HLJ70KU-Fz1TQtaq1=iz=mFCDZuJkw@mail.gmail.com>
2019-03-11 21:52       ` Pavel Machek
2019-03-12 16:05     ` Nick Crews

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