linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 2/3] x86: add support for Huawei WMI hotkeys.

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Date:   Tue, 27 Nov 2018 17:52:02 +0200
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>
Cc:     Ayman Bagabas <ayman.bagabas@...il.com>,
        ALSA Development Mailing List <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>,
        Hui Wang <hui.wang@...onical.com>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Jaroslav Kysela <perex@...ex.cz>,
        Kailang Yang <kailang@...ltek.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 2/3] x86: add support for Huawei WMI hotkeys.

On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 1:02 PM Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 03:57:48 +0100,
> Ayman Bagabas wrote:

> > +     handle = ACPI_HANDLE(&inputdev->dev);
> > +     args[0].type = args[1].type = args[2].type = ACPI_TYPE_INTEGER;
> > +     args[1].integer.value = 0x04;
> > +
> > +     if (acpi_has_method(handle, method = "\\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.SPIN")) {
>
> This looks ugly...  And checkpatch also complains.

Good point.
Actually another question is what handle do we get here? Can we check
method name by relative path, i.e. "SPIN" / "WPIN" instead?

> > +             args[0].integer.value = 0;
> > +             args[2].integer.value = on ? 1 : 0;
> > +     } else if (acpi_has_method(handle, method = "\\_SB.PCI0.LPCB.EC0.WPIN")) {
> > +             args[0].integer.value = 1;
> > +             args[2].integer.value = on ? 0 : 1;
> > +     } else {
> > +             dev_err(&inputdev->dev, "Unable to find ACPI method\n");
> > +             return -ENOSYS;
> > +     }
>
> Can these checks be done at initialization phase?  It doesn't seem
> needed to be executed at each call.

Agree.

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko