linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2 update] misc: Add dell-laptop driver

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Date:	Thu, 4 Dec 2008 10:12:16 +0100 (CET)
From:	Sven Wegener <sven.wegener@...aler.net>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
cc:	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Matt_Domsch@...l.com, greg@...ah.com,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Ivo van Doorn <ivdoorn@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 update] misc: Add dell-laptop driver

On Wed, 3 Dec 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> Add a driver for controling Dell-specific backlight and rfkill 
> interfaces. This driver makes use of the dcdbas interface to the Dell 
> firmware to allow the backlight and rfkill interfaces on Dell systems to 
> be driven through the standardised sysfs interfaces.

> +static void parse_da_table(const struct dmi_header *dm)

__init

> +static void find_tokens(const struct dmi_header *dm)

__init

> +{
> +	switch (dm->type) {
> +	case 0xd4: /* Indexed IO */
> +		break;
> +	case 0xd5: /* Protected Area Type 1 */
> +		break;
> +	case 0xd6: /* Protected Area Type 2 */
> +		break;
> +	case 0xda: /* Calling interface */
> +		parse_da_table(dm);
> +		break;
> +	}

This could be a simple if (dm->type == 0xda), it looks like the switch
is abused as documentation.

> +/* Derived from information in DellWirelessCtl.cpp:
> +   Class 17, select 11 is radio control. It returns an array of 32-bit values.
> +
> +   result[0]: return code
> +   result[1]:
> +     Bit 0:      Hardware switch supported
> +     Bit 1:      Wifi locator supported
> +     Bit 2:      Wifi is supported
> +     Bit 3:      Bluetooth is supported
> +     Bit 4:      WWAN is supported
> +     Bit 5:      Wireless keyboard supported
> +     Bits 6-7:   Reserved
> +     Bit 8:      Wifi is installed
> +     Bit 9:      Bluetooth is installed
> +     Bit 10:     WWAN is installed
> +     Bits 11-15: Reserved
> +     Bit 16:     Hardware switch is on
> +     Bit 17:     Wifi is blocked
> +     Bit 18:     Bluetooth is blocked
> +     Bit 19:     WWAN is blocked
> +     Bits 20-31: Reserved
> +   result[2]: NVRAM size in bytes
> +   result[3]: NVRAM format version number

Could these bit numbers be defines with declarative names, e.g define
DELL_WIFI_BLOCKED (1<<17)? It would make reading the code that just uses
plain numbers easier.

> +	memset(&buffer, 0, sizeof(struct calling_interface_buffer));

sizeof(buffer)

Likewise for other sizeof() occurrences that follow.

> +static int dell_setup_rfkill(void)

__init

Sven
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