On Thursday 27 October 2016 14:45:20 Hans de Goede wrote: > HI, > > On 27-10-16 12:32, Pali Rohár wrote: > >On Monday 24 October 2016 15:45:02 Hans de Goede wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>On 24-10-16 15:43, Pali Rohár wrote: > >>>On Monday 24 October 2016 15:37:31 Hans de Goede wrote: > >>>>Well WMI events get enabled via a SMBIOS call, > >>> > >>>This is truth only for few laptops and only for one WMI event. > >>>Everything else is automatically enabled, no call is needed to issue. > >>> > >>>>and dell-laptop uses SMBIOS exclusively > >>> > >>>IIRC dell-led.ko uses also dell-smbio.ko, so it is not exclusive for > >>>dell-laptop. > >>> > >>>>so it seems to fit. Basically this is a case of > >>>>we have to put this somewhere and dell-smbios is the best fit IMHO. > >>> > >>>Agree, we need to put it somewhere... > >>> > >>>Basically we need to solve problem how (currently) 3 kernel modules can > >>>communicate. Does not kernel support such "bus/event" mechanism for > >>>this? > >> > >>Yes it does, that is exactly what notifiers are for, but we need to > >>declare the bus somewhere. I still believe dell-smbios is the best > >>place. > > > >But dell_smbios_register_notifier() name is totally confusing. It does > >not register any notifier for SMBIOS. Nor it have nothing common with > >SMBIOS API. > > > >Also there is absolutely no need that dell-rbtn.ko needs to depends on > >dell-smbios.ko. dell-rbtn.ko is ACPI driver which does not use any of > >SMBIOS API. > > > >Right now I'm not saying what is the best place for that notifier (as I > >still do not have ideal candidate). I'm just saying that notifier is not > >part of SMBIOS API and therefore dell-smbios.ko is not right place for > >it. > > > >So currently we have these different APIs for dell notebook drivers: > >* ACPI (used in dell-rbtn.ko and dell-smo8800.ko) > >* WMI (used in dell-wmi.ko, dell-wmi-aio.ko, dell-led.ko) > >* SMBIOS (used in dell-laptop.ko, dell-wmi.ko and dell-led.ko) > >* some other platform code (used in dell-laptop.ko) > > > >And now notifier is needed for drivers: > >* dell-laptop.ko > >* dell-wmi.ko > >* dell-rbtn.ko > > > >And if I look at above two sets, none of above drivers is good candidate > >for central notifier functions... Maybe we should really introduce new > >separate file where will central dell notifier live? > > We could put this in a dell-common or some such. My main reason for > going with dell-smbios is that dell-smbios is a "library" module, > loading it does not do anything other then make symbols available > for use by other modules. So using it to store the notifier is safe > (no side effects even if e.g. only dell-rbtn gets loaded). I understand your motivation. > Given that we already have dell-smbios as dell library functions > module, I think that adding a dell-common is a bit overkill. New module is probably really overkill... But cannot we link add those notifier functions statically? So it would not be new module. > I can rename the notifier, maybe use dell_laptop*notifier as names, > since dell-laptop is the main consumer of the notifications ? Yes, this is name is better! -- Pali Rohár pali.rohar@xxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe platform-driver-x86" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
