Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-uart-backlight: new backlight driver for DELL AIO

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Oct 27 2017 - 16:26:31 EST


On Thu, Oct 26, 2017 at 10:53 AM, AceLan Kao <acelan.kao@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The Dell AIO machines released after 2017 come with a UART interface
> to communicate with the backlight scalar board. This driver creates
> a standard backlight interface and talks to the scalar board through
> UART.
>
> In DSDT this uart port will be defined as
> Name (_HID, "DELL0501")
> Name (_CID, EisaId ("PNP0501")
> The 8250 PNP driver will be loaded by default, and this driver uses
> "DELL0501" to confirm the uart port is a backlight interface and
> leverages the port created by 8250 PNP driver to communicate with
> the scalar board.

So, I will wait for next version based on serdev approach and then
will give my comments if any.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko