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Message-ID: <c05d3199-03e3-4e60-a1a1-19e36150f3e3@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2024 22:05:10 +0100
From: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>
To: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@....com>,
 Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
 Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: "Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
 Maximilian Luz <luzmaximilian@...il.com>, Lee Chun-Yi <jlee@...e.com>,
 Shyam Sundar S K <Shyam-sundar.S-k@....com>,
 Corentin Chary <corentin.chary@...il.com>, "Luke D . Jones"
 <luke@...nes.dev>, Ike Panhc <ike.pan@...onical.com>,
 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br>,
 Alexis Belmonte <alexbelm48@...il.com>,
 Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>,
 Ai Chao <aichao@...inos.cn>, Gergo Koteles <soyer@....hu>,
 open list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
 "open list:ACPI" <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
 "open list:MICROSOFT SURFACE PLATFORM PROFILE DRIVER"
 <platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org>,
 "open list:THINKPAD ACPI EXTRAS DRIVER"
 <ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net>,
 Mark Pearson <mpearson-lenovo@...ebb.ca>,
 Matthew Schwartz <matthew.schwartz@...ux.dev>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/22] Add support for binding ACPI platform profile to
 multiple drivers

Am 14.11.24 um 22:57 schrieb Armin Wolf:

> Am 09.11.24 um 05:41 schrieb Mario Limonciello:
>
>> Currently there are a number of ASUS products on the market that
>> happen to
>> have ACPI objects for amd-pmf to bind to as well as an ACPI platform
>> profile provided by asus-wmi.
>>
>> The ACPI platform profile support created by amd-pmf on these ASUS
>> products is "Function 9" which is specifically for "BIOS or EC
>> notification" of power slider position. This feature is actively used
>> by some designs such as Framework 13 and Framework 16.
>>
>> On these ASUS designs we keep on quirking more and more of them to turn
>> off this notification so that asus-wmi can bind.
>>
>> This however isn't how Windows works.  "Multiple" things are notified
>> for
>> the power slider position. This series adjusts Linux to behave
>> similarly.
>>
>> Multiple drivers can now register an ACPI platform profile and will
>> react
>> to set requests.
>>
>> To avoid chaos, only positions that are common to both drivers are
>> accepted when the legacy /sys/firmware/acpi/platform_profile interface
>> is used.
>>
>> This series also adds a new concept of a "custom" profile.  This allows
>> userspace to discover that there are multiple driver handlers that are
>> configured differently.
>>
>> This series also allows dropping all of the PMF quirks from amd-pmf.
>
> Sorry for taking a bit long to respond, i am currently quite busy. I
> will try to review this series
> in the coming days.
>
> Thanks,
> Armin Wolf
>
So far the patch series looks quite good, but a single issue remains: the locking around the class attributes.
Maybe someone with some knowledge about sysfs can help us here.

Also can you please rebase the patch series onto the current for-net branch? This would solve a merge conflict
inside the asus-wmi driver.

Thanks,
Armin WOlf

>> ---
>> v6:
>>   * Add patch dev patch but don't make mandatory
>>   * See other patches changelogs for individualized changes
>>
>> Mario Limonciello (22):
>>    ACPI: platform-profile: Add a name member to handlers
>>    platform/x86/dell: dell-pc: Create platform device
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Add device pointer into platform profile
>>      handler
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Add platform handler argument to
>>      platform_profile_remove()
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Pass the profile handler into
>>      platform_profile_notify()
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Move sanity check out of the mutex
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Move matching string for new profile out of
>>      mutex
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Use guard(mutex) for register/unregister
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Use `scoped_cond_guard`
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Create class for ACPI platform profile
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Add name attribute to class interface
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Add choices attribute for class interface
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Add profile attribute for class interface
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Notify change events on register and
>>      unregister
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Only show profiles common for all handlers
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Add concept of a "custom" profile
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Make sure all profile handlers agree on
>>      profile
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Check all profile handler to calculate next
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Notify class device from
>>      platform_profile_notify()
>>    ACPI: platform_profile: Allow multiple handlers
>>    platform/x86/amd: pmf: Drop all quirks
>>    Documentation: Add documentation about class interface for platform
>>      profiles
>>
>>   .../ABI/testing/sysfs-platform_profile        |   5 +
>>   .../userspace-api/sysfs-platform_profile.rst  |  28 +
>>   drivers/acpi/platform_profile.c               | 537 ++++++++++++++----
>>   .../surface/surface_platform_profile.c        |   8 +-
>>   drivers/platform/x86/acer-wmi.c               |  12 +-
>>   drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmf/Makefile         |   2 +-
>>   drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmf/core.c           |   1 -
>>   drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmf/pmf-quirks.c     |  66 ---
>>   drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmf/pmf.h            |   3 -
>>   drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmf/sps.c            |   4 +-
>>   drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c               |  10 +-
>>   drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi.c     |   8 +-
>>   drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-pc.c           |  36 +-
>>   drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-wmi.c              |   8 +-
>>   drivers/platform/x86/ideapad-laptop.c         |   6 +-
>>   .../platform/x86/inspur_platform_profile.c    |   7 +-
>>   drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.c          |  16 +-
>>   include/linux/platform_profile.h              |   9 +-
>>   18 files changed, 553 insertions(+), 213 deletions(-)
>>   delete mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/amd/pmf/pmf-quirks.c
>>
>>
>> base-commit: d68cb6023356af3bd3193983ad4ec03954a0b3e2
>

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