Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] Introduction of HP-BIOSCFG driver

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Hi Hans,

On Mon, Oct 17, 2022 at 9:37 AM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On 10/17/22 16:29, Limonciello, Mario wrote:
> > FYI When you submit v3, you don't need to add "new patches on top" for your feedbacks to the new driver, they can roll into the patch introducing hp-cfg.  Just make sure you include a changelog under your cut line to indicate you changed these from vX->vY
> >
> > I suspect that Hans will also want you to split the driver up into smaller bite-size patches to make his review easier as well, but I'll let him advise how he wants it done.
> >
> > On 10/17/2022 09:11, Jorge Lopez wrote:
> >> ''Hi Mario,
> >>
> >> Please see comments to previous source comments.
> > <snip>
> >
> >>>> Thanks.  If you make this change for v2, I can make the matching change
> >>>> in fwupd so that if it notices current_value permissions like this that
> >>>> it shows read only there too.
> >>>
> >>> Submitted the recommended changes for review in v2
> >>>
> >
> > Thanks, looks good.
> >
> >>> Submitted a patch to improve the friendly display name for
> >>> few numbers of attributes associated with ‘Schedule Power-ON.’  BIOS
> >>> assign names such ‘Tuesday’ to an attribute. The name is correct, but
> >>> it is not descriptive enough for the user.  Under those
> >>> conditions a portion of the path data value is appended to the attribute
> >>> name to create a user-friendly display name.
> >>>
> >>> For instance, the attribute name is ‘Tuesday,’ and the display name
> >>> value is ‘Schedule Power-ON – Tuesday’
> >
> > Looks good
> >
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Presumably if this is going into it's own directory you should move all
> >>>>>> platform-x86 HP drivers to this directory earlier in the series too.
> >>
> >> The other drivers named HP-WMI and HP_ACCEL  were written by third
> >> party members and not by HP.   It is for this reason and because of
> >> the number of files, only hp-bioscfg was placed in a separate
> >> directory.   Let me know If my reasoning is not valid enough  and I
> >> will keep the files in a separate directory and move the selection to
> >> the main list.    In addition, Moving  HP-WMI and HP_ACCEL drivers
> >> from x86 directories fall outside of the scope of these changes,
> >> Correct?
> >>
> >
> > There is no distinction who writes a driver.  I think either you keep this driver in the root of drivers/platform/x86 or you put all the HP drivers in drivers/platform/x86/hp.
> >
> > I think if you're going to put this driver in the sub-directory "hp", then the first patch in this series should be to move those drivers to that sub-directory.  The second patch should be to introduce your new driver.
>
> I see this driver has a lot of separate files, so what should happen here IMHO is:
>
> 1. a preparation patch adding a hp subdir moving the existing hp drivers there

This will be a separate patch but not an obstacle to gain approval of
hp-bioscfg driver, correct?

> 2. but this driver in a subdir of the hp subdir, so put all its files under:
>
> drivers/platform/x86/hp/hp-bioscfg
>
> so as to keep the files together and separate from other hp drivers.

Can you please clarify..

Do I need to start a new review with only two patches described earlier?

1. a preparation patch adding a hp subdir moving the existing hp drivers there
2. Squash (current version v1 and v2 changes) into one

>
> Note other then just skimming the comments I have not looked at this driver
> at yet I will try to make time for this soon.
>
> Mario, thank you for your review work on this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
>
>




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