[PATCH v5 0/1] platform/x86/tuxedo: Add virtual LampArray for TUXEDO NB04 devices

[Armin Wolf]

Am 21.01.25 um 23:31 schrieb Werner Sembach:

> Hi,
> after some other work, picked this up again.
> Only coding style changes vs v4.
>
>
> I now got my feet a little wet with hid-bpf regarding something else, and
> with that knowledge I would leave the long arrays in the beginning in the
> kernel code for the time being:
>
> sirius_16_ansii_kbl_mapping and sirius_16_iso_kbl_mapping are required
> during initialization so they have to exist in the kernel code anyway.
>
> report_descriptor will most likly not change even for future models and
> afaik having report_descriptors in kernel drivers is not unheard of.
>
> So the only things that could be meaningfully moved to a hid-bpf program
> are the sirius_16_*_kbl_mapping_pos_* arrays. But for these is have to give
> out some fallback value anyway for the case where a hid-bpf file is missing
> or fails to load. So why not use real world values from my test device for
> these values?
>
> As soon as there is a future device that can use the same driver with just
> these pos arrays different, then I would implement that change via a bpf
> program instead of a change to the kernel driver.
>
> Let me know if you too think this is a sensefull approach?
>
>
> Another question: Would this patch need to wait for a userspace
> implementation of lamp array before it can get accepted?

It would be nice if you could test the LampArray implementation. But other than that
userspace can catch up later.

Still, i am interested in the opinion of the LED maintainers regarding the fake HID interface.

Thanks,
Armin Wolf

>
> The folder structure and naming scheme with nb04 is im preparation for
> other parts of tuxedo-drivers to be upstreamed. NB04 is one of the
> board_vendor dmi strings on TUXEDO devices that aligns with which part of
> tuxedo-drivers implements the features of that device. They are independent
> of each other so I plan to put them in different subfolders to reflect
> that.
>
> Best regards,
> Werner Sembach
>
> Werner Sembach (1):
>    platform/x86/tuxedo: Add virtual LampArray for TUXEDO NB04 devices
>
>   MAINTAINERS                                   |   6 +
>   drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig                  |   2 +
>   drivers/platform/x86/Makefile                 |   3 +
>   drivers/platform/x86/tuxedo/Kbuild            |   6 +
>   drivers/platform/x86/tuxedo/Kconfig           |   6 +
>   drivers/platform/x86/tuxedo/nb04/Kbuild       |   9 +
>   drivers/platform/x86/tuxedo/nb04/Kconfig      |  14 +
>   .../platform/x86/tuxedo/nb04/wmi_ab_init.c    | 103 +++
>   .../platform/x86/tuxedo/nb04/wmi_ab_init.h    |  18 +
>   .../x86/tuxedo/nb04/wmi_ab_virt_lamparray.c   | 772 ++++++++++++++++++
>   .../x86/tuxedo/nb04/wmi_ab_virt_lamparray.h   |  18 +
>   .../platform/x86/tuxedo/nb04/wmi_xx_util.c    |  97 +++
>   .../platform/x86/tuxedo/nb04/wmi_xx_util.h    | 112 +++
>   13 files changed, 1166 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/tuxedo/Kbuild
>   create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/tuxedo/Kconfig
>   create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/tuxedo/nb04/Kbuild
>   create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/tuxedo/nb04/Kconfig
>   create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/tuxedo/nb04/wmi_ab_init.c
>   create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/tuxedo/nb04/wmi_ab_init.h
>   create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/tuxedo/nb04/wmi_ab_virt_lamparray.c
>   create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/tuxedo/nb04/wmi_ab_virt_lamparray.h
>   create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/tuxedo/nb04/wmi_xx_util.c
>   create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/tuxedo/nb04/wmi_xx_util.h
>