Re: [PATCH v3] Introduce support for Systems Management Driver over WMI for Dell Systems

2020-09-23 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, On 9/21/20 8:23 PM, Limonciello, Mario wrote: + + "integer"-type specific properties: + + min_value: A file that can be read to obtain the lower + bound value of the + + max_value: A file that can be read to obtain the uppe

RE: [PATCH v3] Introduce support for Systems Management Driver over WMI for Dell Systems

2020-09-21 Thread Limonciello, Mario
> > > + > > + "integer"-type specific properties: > > + > > + min_value: A file that can be read to obtain the lower > > + bound value of the > > + > > + max_value: A file that can be read to obtain the upper > > + bound value of the >

Re: [PATCH v3] Introduce support for Systems Management Driver over WMI for Dell Systems

2020-09-21 Thread Andy Shevchenko
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 2:38 PM Hans de Goede wrote: > On 9/17/20 8:55 AM, Divya Bharathi wrote: ... > Now I see that you try to correctly deal with strncpy-s nastiness > everywhere, but please just don't use it all. > Not using strncpy at all is much better. > > A lot of the strncpy usage is hi

Re: [PATCH v3] Introduce support for Systems Management Driver over WMI for Dell Systems

2020-09-21 Thread Andy Shevchenko
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 3:08 PM Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 2:38 PM Hans de Goede wrote: > > On 9/17/20 8:55 AM, Divya Bharathi wrote: > > ... > > > Now I see that you try to correctly deal with strncpy-s nastiness > > everywhere, but please just don't use it all. > > Not usi

Re: [PATCH v3] Introduce support for Systems Management Driver over WMI for Dell Systems

2020-09-21 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, Ok code review this time. Still mainly focussing on the overal structure and not so much individual functions. Note the code is starting to look good to me. One general remark, now that we are keeping the 1 file per type (int/enum/string) layout, there are quite a few files in this driver.

Re: [PATCH v3] Introduce support for Systems Management Driver over WMI for Dell Systems

2020-09-21 Thread Hans de Goede
Hi, As usual, first a review of the userspace API. Note the biggest pending issue with the userspace API is if we are going to keep this under /sys/devices/platform/dell-wmi-sysman/ or if we are going to have it under: /sys/class/firmware-attributes/dell-wmi-sysman/ That is still being discuss

Re: [PATCH v3] Introduce support for Systems Management Driver over WMI for Dell Systems

2020-09-17 Thread kernel test robot
Hi Divya, I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve: [auto build test WARNING on linux/master] [also build test WARNING on linus/master v5.9-rc5 next-20200916] [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note. And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as do

[PATCH v3] Introduce support for Systems Management Driver over WMI for Dell Systems

2020-09-16 Thread Divya Bharathi
The Dell WMI Systems Management Driver provides a sysfs interface for systems management to enable BIOS configuration capability on certain Dell Systems. This driver allows user to configure Dell systems with a uniform common interface. To facilitate this, the patch introduces a generic way for dr