Re: [PATCH v11 0/5] Dell AWCC platform_profile support

Kurt Borja
2024-10-30T14:41:28Z

On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 02:10:24PM +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2024, Kurt Borja wrote:
>
> > This patch adds platform_profile support for Dell devices which implement
> > WMAX thermal interface, that are meant to be controlled by Alienware Command
> > Center (AWCC). These devices may include newer Alienware M-Series, Alienware
> > X-Series and Dell's G-Series.
> >
> > Tested on an Alienware x15 R1.
> > ---
> > v11:
> > - Minor changes on patch 4/5
> > v10:
> > - `thermal` and `gmode` quirks are now manually selected because some
> > models with the WMAX interface don't have the necessary thermal
> > methods.
> > - Added force_platform_profile and force_gmode patch for a better user
> > experience
> > v9:
> > - Minor changes on patch 3/4
> > v8:
> > - Aesthetic and readibility fixes on patch 3/4
> > - Better commit message for patch 3/4
> > v7:
> > - Platform profile implementation refactored in order to efficently
> > autodetect available thermal profiles
> > - Added GameShiftStatus method to documentation
> > - Implemented GameShiftStatus switch for devices that support it
> > v6:
> > - Removed quirk thermal_ustt.
> > - Now quirk thermal can take canonical thermal profile _tables_ defined
> > in enum WMAX_THERMAL_TABLES
> > - Added autodetect_thermal_profile
> > - Proper removal of thermal profile
> > v5:
> > - Better commit messages
> > - insize renamed to in_size in alienware_wmax_command() to match other
> > arguments.
> > - Kudos in documentation now at the end of the file
> > v4:
> > - Fixed indentation on previous code
> > - Removed unnecessary (acpi_size) and (u32 *) casts
> > - Return -EIO on ACPI_FAILURE
> > - Appropiate prefixes given to macros
> > - 0xFFFFFFFF named WMAX_FAILURE_CODE
> > - Added support for a new set of thermal codes. Old ones now have USTT
> > in their names
> > - A new quirk has been added to differantiate between the two sets.
> > thermal and thermal_ustt are mutually exclusive
> > - Added documentation for WMAX interface
> > v3:
> > - Removed extra empty line
> > - 0x0B named WMAX_ARG_GET_CURRENT_PROF
> > - Removed casts to the same type on functions added in this patch
> > - Thermal profile to WMAX argument is now an static function and makes
> > use of in-built kernel macros
> > - Platform profile is now removed only if it was created first
> > - create_platform_profile is now create_thermal_profile to avoid
> > confusion
> > - profile_get and profile_set functions renamed too to match the above
> > v2:
> > - Moved functionality to alienware-wmi driver
> > - Added thermal and gmode quirks to add support based on dmi match
> > - Performance profile is now GMODE for devices that support it
> > - alienware_wmax_command now is insize agnostic to support new thermal
> > methods
> >
> > Kurt Borja (5):
> > alienware-wmi: fixed indentation and clean up
> > alienware-wmi: alienware_wmax_command() is now input size agnostic
> > alienware-wmi: added platform profile support
> > alienware-wmi: added force module parameters
> > alienware-wmi: WMAX interface documentation
> >
> > Documentation/wmi/devices/alienware-wmi.rst | 388 ++++++++++++++++
> > MAINTAINERS | 1 +
> > drivers/platform/x86/dell/Kconfig | 1 +
> > drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi.c | 477 ++++++++++++++++----
> > 4 files changed, 791 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)
> > create mode 100644 Documentation/wmi/devices/alienware-wmi.rst
>
> Huge thanks to you both Kurt and Armin for all the work done to improve
> this series! :-)
>
> I've applied this series to the review-ilpo branch now.
>
> --
> i.

Huge thanks to you both :). I learnt a lot.

Regards,
Kurt

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