Re: [PATCH] Samsung laptop driver

[Alan Jenkins]

On 8/21/09, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Well, it turns out that for the Samsung laptops, we aren't supposed to
> be poking into the raw PCI config space to control the backlight,
> there's a SMI way to do it instead (Matthew, you were right.)
>
> So here's an updated version of the driver, with lots of debugging still
> left in it, that controls the backlight on a N130 through the "proper"
> way.
>
> It's bigger than the last driver, as I've added lots of documenation
> about this new interface.  I'm also working on adding wireless LED
> support, as well as maybe CPU temperature monitoring to the driver, as
> that can be controlled through this interface.
>
> Soeren and Jérémie, I took out support for both of your laptops, as I
> didn't know if it supported this type of interface.  Could you load the
> driver with the "force=1" parameter:
> 	modprobe samsung-laptop force=1
> and tell me what the kernel log shows for your laptop?  If it works,
> I'll add the DMI values back to the driver.
>
> Jesse, I don't know how this is going to play with your recently added
> backlight support for the i915 driver.  As you don't have control over
> the LEDs and other stuff that this driver is going to support, I think
> we need some way to keep the i915 driver from messing with the backlight
> values, don't you think?
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
> --------------
>
>
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Samsung laptop driver
>
> This driver implements backlight controls for Samsung laptops that
> currently do not have ACPI support for this control.
>
> It has been tested on the N130 laptop and properly works there.
>
> Many thanks to Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> for cleanups
> and other suggestions on how to make the driver simpler.
>
> Cc: Soeren Sonnenburg <bugreports@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Jérémie Huchet <jeremie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig          |   12
>  drivers/platform/x86/Makefile         |    1
>  drivers/platform/x86/samsung-laptop.c |  420
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  3 files changed, 433 insertions(+)

> +static struct dmi_system_id __initdata samsung_dmi_table[] = {
> +	{
> +		.ident = "N120",
> +		.matches = {
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD."),
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "N120"),
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "N120"),
> +		},
> +		.callback = dmi_check_cb,
> +	},
> +	{
> +		.ident = "N130",
> +		.matches = {
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD."),
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "N130"),
> +			DMI_MATCH(DMI_BOARD_NAME, "N130"),
> +		},
> +		.callback = dmi_check_cb,
> +	},
> +	{ },
> +};

...

> +MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:pnN120:*:rnN120:*");
> +MODULE_ALIAS("dmi:*:svnSAMSUNGELECTRONICSCO.,LTD.:pnN130:*:rnN130:*");

Can't you just use MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(dmi, samsung_dmi_table)?

Regards
Alan
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