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Message-ID: <2e9fb24e-9652-4087-963e-cbcf3b1f2c56@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 20:54:37 +0100
From: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>
To: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
 Kurt Borja <kuurtb@...il.com>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 0/5] Dell AWCC platform_profile support

Am 30.10.24 um 13:10 schrieb Ilpo Järvinen:

> On Tue, 29 Oct 2024, Kurt Borja wrote:
>
>> This patch adds platform_profile support for Dell devices which implement
>> WMAX thermal interface, that are meant to be controlled by Alienware Command
>> Center (AWCC). These devices may include newer Alienware M-Series, Alienware
>> X-Series and Dell's G-Series.
>>
>> Tested on an Alienware x15 R1.
>> ---
>> v11:
>>   - Minor changes on patch 4/5
>> v10:
>>   - `thermal` and `gmode` quirks are now manually selected because some
>>     models with the WMAX interface don't have the necessary thermal
>>     methods.
>>   - Added force_platform_profile and force_gmode patch for a better user
>>     experience
>> v9:
>>   - Minor changes on patch 3/4
>> v8:
>>   - Aesthetic and readibility fixes on patch 3/4
>>   - Better commit message for patch 3/4
>> v7:
>>   - Platform profile implementation refactored in order to efficently
>>     autodetect available thermal profiles
>>   - Added GameShiftStatus method to documentation
>>   - Implemented GameShiftStatus switch for devices that support it
>> v6:
>>   - Removed quirk thermal_ustt.
>>   - Now quirk thermal can take canonical thermal profile _tables_ defined
>>     in enum WMAX_THERMAL_TABLES
>>   - Added autodetect_thermal_profile
>>   - Proper removal of thermal profile
>> v5:
>>   - Better commit messages
>>   - insize renamed to in_size in alienware_wmax_command() to match other
>>     arguments.
>>   - Kudos in documentation now at the end of the file
>> v4:
>>   - Fixed indentation on previous code
>>   - Removed unnecessary (acpi_size) and (u32 *) casts
>>   - Return -EIO on ACPI_FAILURE
>>   - Appropiate prefixes given to macros
>>   - 0xFFFFFFFF named WMAX_FAILURE_CODE
>>   - Added support for a new set of thermal codes. Old ones now have USTT
>>     in their names
>>   - A new quirk has been added to differantiate between the two sets.
>>     thermal and thermal_ustt are mutually exclusive
>>   - Added documentation for WMAX interface
>> v3:
>>   - Removed extra empty line
>>   - 0x0B named WMAX_ARG_GET_CURRENT_PROF
>>   - Removed casts to the same type on functions added in this patch
>>   - Thermal profile to WMAX argument is now an static function and makes
>>     use of in-built kernel macros
>>   - Platform profile is now removed only if it was created first
>>   - create_platform_profile is now create_thermal_profile to avoid
>>     confusion
>>   - profile_get and profile_set functions renamed too to match the above
>> v2:
>>   - Moved functionality to alienware-wmi driver
>>   - Added thermal and gmode quirks to add support based on dmi match
>>   - Performance profile is now GMODE for devices that support it
>>   - alienware_wmax_command now is insize agnostic to support new thermal
>>     methods
>>
>> Kurt Borja (5):
>>    alienware-wmi: fixed indentation and clean up
>>    alienware-wmi: alienware_wmax_command() is now input size agnostic
>>    alienware-wmi: added platform profile support
>>    alienware-wmi: added force module parameters
>>    alienware-wmi: WMAX interface documentation
>>
>>   Documentation/wmi/devices/alienware-wmi.rst | 388 ++++++++++++++++
>>   MAINTAINERS                                 |   1 +
>>   drivers/platform/x86/dell/Kconfig           |   1 +
>>   drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi.c   | 477 ++++++++++++++++----
>>   4 files changed, 791 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)
>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/wmi/devices/alienware-wmi.rst
> Huge thanks to you both Kurt and Armin for all the work done to improve
> this series! :-)
>
> I've applied this series to the review-ilpo branch now.

Nice.

Would it be possible to apply a small fixup to patch 4?
Because pr_warn("force_gmode requieres platform profile support") seems to be missing a newline.

Thanks,
Armin Wolf