Re: [PATCH] dell: add new dell WMI format for the AIO machines

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On 08/03/13 08:19, AceLan Kao wrote:
2013/3/8 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
On Fri, Mar 08, 2013 at 03:44:30PM +0800, AceLan Kao wrote:
  static const struct key_entry dell_wmi_aio_keymap[] = {
       { KE_KEY, 0xc0, { KEY_VOLUMEUP } },
       { KE_KEY, 0xc1, { KEY_VOLUMEDOWN } },
+     { KE_KEY, 0xe030, { KEY_VOLUMEUP } },
+     { KE_KEY, 0xe02e, { KEY_VOLUMEDOWN } },
+     { KE_KEY, 0xe020, { KEY_MUTE } },
+     { KE_KEY, 0xe027, { KEY_DISPLAYTOGGLE } },
+     { KE_KEY, 0xe006, { KEY_BRIGHTNESSUP } },
+     { KE_KEY, 0xe005, { KEY_BRIGHTNESSDOWN } },
+     { KE_KEY, 0xe00b, { KEY_SWITCHVIDEOMODE } },

This is starting to look awfully like the keymap in dell-wmi.c. There's
probably an argument for merging them at the source level, even if it
ends up duplicated in both drivers.
For All-In-One machines, there will be only some function keys on the
side of the machine,
so the list won't grow like the dell-wmi driver and probably stop
growing quickly.

+                     if (dell_wmi_aio_event_check(obj->buffer.pointer,
+                                             obj->buffer.length)) {

Are we guaranteed that the old events will never look like this?
There is no easy way to distinguish between the old and the new WMI event,
so what we can do is to add more constraints on it.
With buffer length and the event type checking,
I think it's sufficient for identifying them.

..I'm in agreement about this. The original set of machines that passed the event info in a buffer were a minimal batch and had the firmware written by a totally different BIOS vendor than the original set of AOI machines - and they were a limit run. The checks you've now added are most probably sufficient until somebody decides to change the Dell AIO implementation again. So I'm happy with this as it stands.

Colin

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