linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] power: supply: Add battery and AC drivers for Surface devices

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Message-ID: <efdf4d60-64e7-2dd8-5349-29725ec5cbea@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 17 Mar 2021 18:49:15 +0100
From:   Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
To:     Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@...il.com>,
        Sebastian Reichel <sre@...nel.org>
Cc:     linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] power: supply: Add battery and AC drivers for Surface
 devices

Hi,

On 3/17/21 6:47 PM, Maximilian Luz wrote:
> On 3/17/21 6:39 PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 3/9/21 1:05 AM, Maximilian Luz wrote:
>>> This series provides battery and AC drivers for Microsoft Surface
>>> devices, where this information is provided via an embedded controller
>>> (the Surface System Aggregator Module, SSAM) instead of the usual ACPI
>>> interface.
>>>
>>> Specifically, 7th generation Surface devices, i.e. Surface Pro 7,
>>> Surface Book 3, Surface Laptop 3, as well as the Surface Laptop Go use
>>> this new interface.
>>>
>>> Note: This series depends on the
>>>
>>>      platform/surface: Add Surface Aggregator device registry
>>>
>>> series. More specifically patch
>>>
>>>      platform/surface: Set up Surface Aggregator device registry
>>>
>>> The full series has been merged into the for-next branch of the
>>> platform-drivers-x86 tree [1]. The commit in question can be found at
>>> [2].
>>>
>>> [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86.git/log/?h=for-next
>>> [2]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pdx86/platform-drivers-x86.git/commit/?h=for-next&id=fc622b3d36e6d91330fb21506b9ad1e3206a4dde
>>
>> Sebastian, I guess you want a pull-req from an immutable branch from me for
>> that dependend commit and then you will merge these 2 patches ?
>>
>> Maximillian, this only needs that commit right, or would it be better if
>> I send Sebastian a pull-req for a branch with the entire series?
> 
> The entire series would be better, I think.
> 
> Strictly speaking, it only requires the mentioned commit to compile
> successfully, but if anyone would want to test this they'd need the full
> series (or at least the battery/power subsystem commit) due to the
> device instantiation.

Ack, I think the whole series makes the most sense too, so I will
prepare a pull-req for that.

> Same reasoning applies to the HID series.

Ack.

Regards,

Hans