Hi everyone,
Back in January [1], while working on the dell-smbios module, I
suggested that the code present in drivers/leds/dell-led.c could be
moved to drivers/platform/x86 for coherency. I decided to revisit that
idea.
dell-led consists of two major parts:
- the part handling an "Activity LED" present in Dell Latitude 2100
netbooks, introduced in 72dcd8d; it registers a LED device and uses
a special WMI interface to control its state,
- the part exposing a "microphone mute LED interface", introduced in
db6d8cc; this interface is used by sound/pci/hda/dell_wmi_helper.c;
while the original implementation also used a WMI interface, it was
changed to use dell-smbios in cf0d7ea and 0c41a08.
I believe both parts could (and should) be moved to drivers/platform/x86
as drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c already handles a bunch of LEDs
and drivers/leds/dell-led.c is the only dell-smbios user outside of
drivers/platform/x86.
My question to you, the maintainers of the relevant drivers and
subsystems, is whether you would like to see such a move happen. I have
prepared a draft patch series which:
- moves the "microphone mute LED interface" to dell-laptop.c,
effectively causing sound/pci/hda/dell_wmi_helper.c to depend on
CONFIG_DELL_LAPTOP instead of CONFIG_LEDS_DELL_NETBOOKS,
- moves the "Activity LED" part to a new file, tentatively called
drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi-led.c.
Merging the "Activity LED" part with drivers/platform/x86/dell-wmi.c is
not really clean because dell-wmi handles a different GUID, which AFAIK
is not related in any way to the GUID used by dell-led.
So, before I spam *three* subsystem mailing lists with a bunch of
patches, I would love to hear from the maintainers of both drivers/leds
and drivers/platform/x86 whether there are any arguments against such a
move. Meanwhile, I will keep polishing the patch series and if there is
no strong disagreement from any party involved, I will post the series
next week or so, so that we can discuss code and not just ideas.
As a side note, if anyone reading this has access to a Dell device which
has an "Activity LED" and/or a "microphone mute LED" currently supported
by dell-led, I would love to hear from you as I do not have the hardware
needed to practically test the patch series I am working on.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
[1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg08143.html
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Best regards,
Michał Kępień
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