linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI: surface3_power: MSHW0011 rev-eng implementation

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Date:   Fri, 30 Jun 2017 17:24:06 +0200
From:   Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>
To:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Cc:     Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Bastien Nocera <hadess@...ess.net>,
        Stephen Just <stephenjust@...il.com>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>,
        "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        Robert Moore <robert.moore@...el.com>,
        Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@...el.com>,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        "linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "devel@...ica.org" <devel@...ica.org>,
        "linux-pm@...r.kernel.org" <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ACPI: surface3_power: MSHW0011 rev-eng implementation

On Jun 29 2017 or thereabouts, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 4:22 PM, Andy Shevchenko
> <andy.shevchenko@...il.com> wrote:
> > +Cc: Hans (he might give some advice regarding to the below)
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 3:10 PM, Benjamin Tissoires
> > <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com> wrote:
> >> MSHW0011 replaces the battery firmware by using ACPI operation regions.
> >> The values have been obtained by reverse engineering, and are subject to
> >> errors. Looks like it works on overall pretty well.
> >
> > What devices (laptops, tablets) have it?
> > Surface 3. What else?
> >
> >> I couldn't manage to get the IRQ correctly triggered, so I am using a
> >> good old polling thread to check for changes.
> >
> > It might be
> >
> >>
> >> Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106231
> >
> >> +config ACPI_SURFACE3_POWER_OPREGION
> >> +       tristate "Surface 3 battery platform operation region support"
> >
> > depends on ACPI ?
> >
> >> +       help
> >> +         Select this option to enable support for ACPI operation
> >> +         region of the Surface 3 battery platform driver.
> >
> >> +/*
> >> + * Supports for the power IC on the Surface 3 tablet.
> >
> > Shouldn't it go to drivers/acpi/pmic folder ?
> 
> Surely not directly into drivers/acpi/ in any case.
> 

Yep, drivers/acpi/pmic seems like a good candidate. I will do that in
v3.

Cheers,
Benjamin