Re: [PATCH v10 02/14] platform/x86: alienware-wmi: Add WMI Drivers

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@intel.com>]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 10:45:58AM -0500, Kurt Borja wrote:
> Add WMI drivers for LEGACY and WMAX devices.
> 
> This involves moving the platform device registration to a helper
> function that is now called from the driver's preferred WMI device
> driver probe. In the case of the WMAX this is done only if
> `!quirks->thermal` because the newer WMAX interface doesn't support any
> of the LED features of this driver. This also eliminates the need to
> check for `quirks->num_zones > 0` inside alienfx_probe().
> 
> Only one WMI driver is registered on module initialization to prevent
> registering a duplicate platform device.
> 
> Additionally, create_thermal_profile() now takes wmi_device * instead of
> platform_device *.

...

> +static int alienware_alienfx_setup(struct alienfx_platdata *pdata)
> +{
> +	struct device *dev = &pdata->wdev->dev;
> +	struct platform_device *pdev;
>  	int ret;
>  
> +	pdev = platform_device_register_data(NULL, "alienware-wmi",
> +					     PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE, pdata,
> +					     sizeof(*pdata));
> +	if (IS_ERR(pdev))
> +		return PTR_ERR(pdev);
> +
> +	dev_set_drvdata(dev, pdev);
> +	ret = devm_add_action_or_reset(dev, alienware_alienfx_remove, pdev);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
> +
> +	return 0;

	return devm_add_action_or_reset(...);

> +}

...

> +static const struct wmi_device_id alienware_legacy_device_id_table[] = {
> +	{ LEGACY_CONTROL_GUID, NULL },

Drop that ' , NULL' part, it makes an additional burden if the type of the
driver_data is ever changed.

> +	{ },

No comma in the terminator entries.

> +};

...

> +static const struct wmi_device_id alienware_wmax_device_id_table[] = {
> +	{ WMAX_CONTROL_GUID, NULL },
> +	{ },
> +};

Ditto.

...

> +static int __init alienware_wmax_wmi_init(void)
> +{
> +	return wmi_driver_register(&alienware_wmax_wmi_driver);
> +}
> +
> +static void __exit alienware_wmax_wmi_exit(void)
> +{
> +	wmi_driver_unregister(&alienware_wmax_wmi_driver);
> +}

I believe we have module_wmi_driver() which can be used after the split
(haven't checked those patches yet).

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko