Re: [PATCH] v2 - Add Dell Business Class Netbook LED driver

From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Wed Feb 17 2010 - 00:55:30 EST


Hi Bob,

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 08:11:07AM -0600, Bob Rodgers wrote:
> This patch adds an LED driver to support the Dell Activity LED on the
> Dell Latitude 2100 netbook and future products to come. The Activity LED
> is visible externally in the lid so classroom instructors can observe it
> from a distance. The driver uses the sysfs led_class and provides a
> standard LED interface. This driver is ready for submission upstream.
>
> Signed-off by: Bob Rodgers <Robert_Rodgers@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Louis Davis <Louis_Davis@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jim Dailey <Jim_Dailey@xxxxxxxx>, Developers
> Acked-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> Description of changes in v2:
> 1) Added X86 and ACPI_WMI dependencies to the Kconfig file.
> 2) Removed platform_driver and platform_device as they are not needed in this driver.
>

With the platform device stiff gone it looks much better, still a few
things:

> +
> +#include <linux/platform_device.h>

Do you still need platform_device.h?

> +#include <linux/acpi.h>
> +#include <linux/leds.h>
> +
> +MODULE_AUTHOR("Louis Davis/Jim Dailey");
> +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Dell LED Control Driver");
> +MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> +
> +#define DELL_LED_BIOS_GUID "F6E4FE6E-909D-47cb-8BAB-C9F6F2F8D396"
> +MODULE_ALIAS("wmi:" DELL_LED_BIOS_GUID);
> +
> +/* Error Result Codes: */
> +#define INVALID_DEVICE_ID 250
> +#define INVALID_PARAMETER 251
> +#define INVALID_BUFFER 252
> +#define INTERFACE_ERROR 253
> +#define UNSUPPORTED_COMMAND 254
> +#define UNSPECIFIED_ERROR 255
> +
> +/* Device ID */
> +#define DEVICE_ID_PANEL_BACK 1
> +
> +/* LED Commands */
> +#define CMD_LED_ON 16
> +#define CMD_LED_OFF 17
> +#define CMD_LED_BLINK 18
> +
> +struct bios_args {
> + unsigned char length;
> + unsigned char result_code;
> + unsigned char device_id;
> + unsigned char command;
> + unsigned char on_time;
> + unsigned char off_time;
> +};
> +
> +static u8 dell_led_perform_fn(u8 length,
> + u8 result_code,
> + u8 device_id,
> + u8 command,
> + u8 on_time,
> + u8 off_time)
> +{
> + struct bios_args *bios_return;
> + u8 return_code;
> + union acpi_object *obj;
> + struct acpi_buffer output = { ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER, NULL };
> + struct acpi_buffer input;
> +
> + struct bios_args args;
> + args.length = length;
> + args.result_code = result_code;
> + args.device_id = device_id;
> + args.command = command;
> + args.on_time = on_time;
> + args.off_time = off_time;
> +
> + input.length = sizeof(struct bios_args);
> + input.pointer = &args;
> +
> + wmi_evaluate_method(DELL_LED_BIOS_GUID,
> + 1,
> + 1,
> + &input,
> + &output);

This needs error handling.

> +
> + obj = output.pointer;
> +
> + if (!obj || obj->type != ACPI_TYPE_BUFFER)
> + return -EINVAL;

You are leaking obj when obj is not NULL and is not a buffer.

> +
> +static int __init dell_led_init(void)
> +{
> + int error = 0;
> +
> + if (!wmi_has_guid(DELL_LED_BIOS_GUID)) {
> + printk(KERN_DEBUG KBUILD_MODNAME
> + ": could not find: DELL_LED_BIOS_GUID\n");

Please ocnsider using pr_xxx() family.

> + return -ENODEV;
> + }
> +
> + error = led_off();
> + if (error != 0) {
> + printk(KERN_DEBUG KBUILD_MODNAME

This is a warning or an error, not a debug.

Thank you.

--
Dmitry
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