linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 04/11] platform/x86: asus-wmi: Improve DSTS WMI method ID detection

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Date:   Thu, 9 May 2019 20:57:02 +0300
From:   Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@...il.com>
To:     Yurii Pavlovskyi <yurii.pavlovskyi@...il.com>
Cc:     Daniel Drake <drake@...lessm.com>,
        Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andy@...radead.org>,
        acpi4asus-user <acpi4asus-user@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
        Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...ysocki.net>,
        Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
        ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 04/11] platform/x86: asus-wmi: Improve DSTS WMI method
 ID detection

On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 8:29 PM Yurii Pavlovskyi
<yurii.pavlovskyi@...il.com> wrote:
> On 08.05.19 15:36, Andy Shevchenko wrote:> On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 1:08 PM
> Yurii Pavlovskyi
> > <yurii.pavlovskyi@...il.com> wrote:
> >>         int rv;
> >> +       char *wmi_uid;
> >
> > Keep them in reversed spruce order.
>
> What do you mean by that? Do you mean like this?

> + char *wmi_uid;
> int rv;

Yes.

> int err;

Don't see this in the above, though.

> >> +#define ASUS_WMI_METHODID_DSTS         0x53544344 /* Device STatuS
> (DCTS) */
> >
> > It's not clear from the description what 'C' stands for.
> > Is there any specification which describes the difference and actual
> > abbreviations?
> >
> Not that I know of. Daniel had written some research in the previous
> version thread regarding where it is used, but as I understand from current
> implementation the functional difference is not really there, as it serves
> the same purpose as DSTS, just for another hardware.
>
> On 09.05.19 08:08, Daniel Drake wrote:
> > For clarity I think the constants could be renamed as
> > ASUS_WMI_METHODID_DCTS and ASUS_WMI_METHODID_DSTS.
> >
> Agree, that'll be better.

Also makes sense, but then fix up capitalization in the comment
(perhaps "Device status" would be good in both cases).

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko