Re: [PATCH v11 0/5] Dell AWCC platform_profile support

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On Wed, Oct 30, 2024 at 02:10:24PM +0200, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Oct 2024, Kurt Borja wrote:
> 
> > This patch adds platform_profile support for Dell devices which implement
> > WMAX thermal interface, that are meant to be controlled by Alienware Command
> > Center (AWCC). These devices may include newer Alienware M-Series, Alienware
> > X-Series and Dell's G-Series.
> > 
> > Tested on an Alienware x15 R1.
> > ---
> > v11:
> >  - Minor changes on patch 4/5
> > v10:
> >  - `thermal` and `gmode` quirks are now manually selected because some
> >    models with the WMAX interface don't have the necessary thermal
> >    methods.
> >  - Added force_platform_profile and force_gmode patch for a better user
> >    experience
> > v9:
> >  - Minor changes on patch 3/4
> > v8:
> >  - Aesthetic and readibility fixes on patch 3/4
> >  - Better commit message for patch 3/4
> > v7:
> >  - Platform profile implementation refactored in order to efficently
> >    autodetect available thermal profiles
> >  - Added GameShiftStatus method to documentation
> >  - Implemented GameShiftStatus switch for devices that support it 
> > v6:
> >  - Removed quirk thermal_ustt.
> >  - Now quirk thermal can take canonical thermal profile _tables_ defined
> >    in enum WMAX_THERMAL_TABLES
> >  - Added autodetect_thermal_profile
> >  - Proper removal of thermal profile
> > v5:
> >  - Better commit messages
> >  - insize renamed to in_size in alienware_wmax_command() to match other
> >    arguments.
> >  - Kudos in documentation now at the end of the file
> > v4:
> >  - Fixed indentation on previous code
> >  - Removed unnecessary (acpi_size) and (u32 *) casts
> >  - Return -EIO on ACPI_FAILURE
> >  - Appropiate prefixes given to macros
> >  - 0xFFFFFFFF named WMAX_FAILURE_CODE
> >  - Added support for a new set of thermal codes. Old ones now have USTT
> >    in their names
> >  - A new quirk has been added to differantiate between the two sets.
> >    thermal and thermal_ustt are mutually exclusive
> >  - Added documentation for WMAX interface
> > v3:
> >  - Removed extra empty line
> >  - 0x0B named WMAX_ARG_GET_CURRENT_PROF
> >  - Removed casts to the same type on functions added in this patch
> >  - Thermal profile to WMAX argument is now an static function and makes
> >    use of in-built kernel macros
> >  - Platform profile is now removed only if it was created first
> >  - create_platform_profile is now create_thermal_profile to avoid
> >    confusion
> >  - profile_get and profile_set functions renamed too to match the above
> > v2:
> >  - Moved functionality to alienware-wmi driver
> >  - Added thermal and gmode quirks to add support based on dmi match
> >  - Performance profile is now GMODE for devices that support it
> >  - alienware_wmax_command now is insize agnostic to support new thermal
> >    methods
> > 
> > Kurt Borja (5):
> >   alienware-wmi: fixed indentation and clean up
> >   alienware-wmi: alienware_wmax_command() is now input size agnostic
> >   alienware-wmi: added platform profile support
> >   alienware-wmi: added force module parameters
> >   alienware-wmi: WMAX interface documentation
> > 
> >  Documentation/wmi/devices/alienware-wmi.rst | 388 ++++++++++++++++
> >  MAINTAINERS                                 |   1 +
> >  drivers/platform/x86/dell/Kconfig           |   1 +
> >  drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi.c   | 477 ++++++++++++++++----
> >  4 files changed, 791 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/wmi/devices/alienware-wmi.rst
> 
> Huge thanks to you both Kurt and Armin for all the work done to improve 
> this series! :-)
> 
> I've applied this series to the review-ilpo branch now.
> 
> -- 
>  i.

Huge thanks to you both :). I learnt a lot.

Regards,
Kurt

> 




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