linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] platform/x86 acer-wmi: Improve platform profile handling

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Message-ID: <71969195-db20-4e24-8caf-6fee389a7d70@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2025 20:07:57 +0100
From: Armin Wolf <W_Armin@....de>
To: Hridesh MG <hridesh699@...il.com>,
 Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>, Kurt Borja <kuurtb@...il.com>,
 platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 Shuah Khan <skhan@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/5] platform/x86 acer-wmi: Improve platform profile
 handling

Am 15.01.25 um 16:23 schrieb Hridesh MG:

> On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 8:07 PM Ilpo Järvinen
> <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:44:08 +0530, Hridesh MG wrote:
>>
>>> This patch improves the platform profile handling for laptops using the
>>> Acer Predator interface by making the following changes -
>>>
>>> 1) Using WMI calls to fetch the current platform profile instead of
>>>     directly accessing it from the EC. A new helper function is
>>>     introduced for this purpose.
>>> 2) Simplifying the cycling of platform profiles by making use of
>>>     platform_profile_cycle()
>>> 3) Using an ACPI bitmap to dynamically set platform_profile_choices to
>>>     better reflect the supported profiles.
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>> Thank you for your contribution, it has been applied to my local
>> review-ilpo-next branch. Note it will show up in the public
>> platform-drivers-x86/review-ilpo-next branch only once I've pushed my
>> local branch there, which might take a while.
>>
>> The list of commits applied:
>> [1/5] platform/x86: acer-wmi: use WMI calls for platform profile handling
>>        commit: 2d76708c2221dde33d86aeef19f6d7d5f62148b4
>> [2/5] platform/x86: acer-wmi: use new helper function for setting overclocks
>>        commit: cd44e09bb89d4a33514b9ec3d972f0d2d13f5cfd
>> [3/5] platform/x86: acer-wmi: simplify platform profile cycling
>>        commit: 61c461a90fbfc038d9663713f293d60fcb58c41d
>> [4/5] platform/x86: acer-wmi: use an ACPI bitmap to set the platform profile choices
>>        commit: 191e21f1a4c3948957adc037734449f4a965dec5
>> [5/5] platform/x86: acer-wmi: add support for Acer Nitro AN515-58
>>        commit: 549fcf58cf5837d401d0de906093169b05365609
>>
>> --
>>   i.
>>
> Awesome, thanks a lot! I would like to once again thank Armin Wolf and
> Kurt Borja for their guidance and help in creating this patchset, this
> is my first meaningful [ to me atleast :) ] contribution to the kernel
> and I'm quite proud of it. Working on this issue was pretty fun and I
> learnt a lot regarding different things, it really did make me
> appreciate kernel developers even more.
>
Thank you :).

Your patch will not only be meaningful to you, since all other users of acer-wmi will now
enjoy improved platform profile support for their machines.

Thanks,
Armin Wolf