Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] platform/x86: x86-android-tablets: New driver for x86 Android tablets

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On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 5:13 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> x86 tablets which ship with Android as (part of) the factory image
> typically have various problems with their DSDTs. The factory kernels
> shipped on these devices typically have device addresses and GPIOs
> hardcoded in the kernel, rather then specified in their DSDT.
>
> With the DSDT containing a random collection of devices which may or
> may not actually be present as well as missing devices which are
> actually present.
>
> This driver, which loads only on affected models based on DMI matching,
> adds DMI based instantiating of kernel devices for devices which are
> missing from the DSDT, fixing e.g. battery monitoring, touchpads and/or
> accelerometers not working.
>
> Note the Kconfig help text also refers to "various fixes" ATM there are
> no such fixes, but there are also known cases where entries are present
> in the DSDT but they contain bugs, such as missing/wrong GPIOs. The plan
> is to also add fixes for things like this here in the future.
>
> This is the least ugly option to get these devices to fully work and to
> do so without adding any extra code to the main kernel image (vmlinuz)
> when built as a module.

...

> +config X86_ANDROID_TABLETS
> +       tristate "X86 Android tablet support"
> +       depends on I2C && ACPI
> +       help
> +         X86 tablets which ship with Android as (part of) the factory image
> +         typically have various problems with their DSDTs. The factory kernels
> +         shipped on these devices typically have device addresses and GPIOs
> +         hardcoded in the kernel, rather then specified in their DSDT.

than

> +
> +         With the DSDT containing a random collection of devices which may or
> +         may not actually be present. This driver contains various fixes for
> +         such tablets, including instantiating kernel devices for devices which
> +         are missing from the DSDT.

...

> +static const char * const chuwi_hi8_mount_matrix[] = {
> +       "1", "0", "0",
> +       "0", "-1", "0",
> +       "0", "0", "1"

+ comma?

> +};

...

> +       int ret = 0;

> +       board_info.irq = x86_acpi_irq_helper_get(&client_info->irq_data);
> +       if (board_info.irq < 0) {
> +               ret = board_info.irq;
> +               goto out;
> +       }

Can we rather use
ret = ...
if (ret < 0)
 goto
.irq = ret;

?

...

> +       i2c_clients[idx] = i2c_new_client_device(adap, &board_info);
> +       if (IS_ERR(i2c_clients[idx])) {

> +               ret = PTR_ERR(i2c_clients[idx]);
> +               pr_err("Error creating I2C-client %d: %d\n", idx, ret);

dev_err_probe()? (device of the adapter)

> +       }

...

> +out:

out_put_device: ?

> +       put_device(&adap->dev);
> +       return ret;

...

> +       int i, ret = 0;

Do you need this assignment? See below.

...

> +       for (i = 0; i < dev_info->i2c_client_count; i++) {
> +               ret = x86_instantiate_i2c_client(dev_info, i);
> +               if (ret < 0) {
> +                       x86_android_tablet_cleanup();

> +                       break;

return ret; ?

> +               }
> +       }

> +       return ret;

return 0; ?

-- 
With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko



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