Re: [PATCH v6 00/12] platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: HWMON support + DebugFS + Improvements

["Kurt Borja" <kuurtb@gmail.com>]

On Wed Mar 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM -03, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Mar 2025, Kurt Borja wrote:
>> On Thu Mar 13, 2025 at 11:29 AM -03, Kurt Borja wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > This set mainly adds hwmon and manual fan control support (patches 7-8)
>> > to the alienware-wmi driver, after some improvements.
>> >
>> > Thank you for your feedback :)
>> >
>> > ---
>> > Changes in v6:
>> >
>> > [08/12]
>> >   - Define dev_pm_ops statically (kernel test robot)
>> >
>> > Link to v5: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250312-hwm-v5-0-deb15ff8f3c6@gmail.com
>> >
>> > ---
>> > Kurt Borja (12):
>> >       platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Rename thermal related symbols
>> >       platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Refactor is_awcc_thermal_mode()
>> >       platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Improve internal AWCC API
>> >       platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Modify supported_thermal_profiles[]
>> >       platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Improve platform profile probe
>> >       platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Add support for the "custom" thermal profile
>> >       platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Add HWMON support
>> >       platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Add support for manual fan control
>> >       platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Add a DebugFS interface
>> >       Documentation: wmi: Improve and update alienware-wmi documentation
>> >       Documentation: admin-guide: laptops: Add documentation for alienware-wmi
>> >       Documentation: ABI: Add sysfs platform and debugfs ABI documentation for alienware-wmi
>> >
>> >  Documentation/ABI/testing/debugfs-alienware-wmi    |   44 +
>> >  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-alienware-wmi       |   14 +
>> >  .../admin-guide/laptops/alienware-wmi.rst          |  128 +++
>> >  Documentation/admin-guide/laptops/index.rst        |    1 +
>> >  Documentation/wmi/devices/alienware-wmi.rst        |  383 +++-----
>> >  MAINTAINERS                                        |    3 +
>> >  drivers/platform/x86/dell/Kconfig                  |    1 +
>> >  drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-wmax.c     | 1023 +++++++++++++++++---
>> >  8 files changed, 1187 insertions(+), 410 deletions(-)
>> > ---
>> > base-commit: f895f2493098b862f1ada0568aba278e49bf05b4
>> > change-id: 20250305-hwm-f7bd91902b57
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> 
>> Hi Ilpo,
>> 
>> Is there still a chance for this to go into v6.15? or are you planning
>> to review it on the next cycle?
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm almost there to make the main PR for 6.15 from what's in for-next 
> currently, so no, this won't be part of it.
>
> In general, I don't usually take large series after -rc6 timeframe to give 
> time for things to settle and problems to be brought to surface.
> Especially if the series is interfacing with other subsystems which is 
> prone to lack of select/depends on clauses, etc. so more likely to break 
> the build than changes that seem immune to the .config variations.

Oh - I'll keep in mind this in the future. Thank you!

-- 
 ~ Kurt