NAK: [PATCH v3 0/2]BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1727235

Kleber Souza kleber.souza at canonical.com
Thu Sep 27 15:55:20 UTC 2018


On 09/06/18 10:19, AceLan Kao wrote:
> [Impact]
> New Dell AIO platforms requires a driver that can communicate with the
> scalar IC FW through UART interface to get and set the brightness level.
> 
> [Test]
> Verified on some new Dell AIO machines and confirmed it works.
> 
> [Fix]
> Write a new driver to handle this task.
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> Low, it's a new driver for new interface.
> 
> [Misc]
> Upstream maintainer ask use to re-implement this driver by the new
> interface, serdev, but serdev seems doesn't work with ACPI, so submit
> this driver as Ubuntu sauce patch for now. I'll try re-write it when I'm
> available.
> 
> AceLan Kao (2):
>   UBUNTU: SAUCE: platform/x86: dell-uart-backlight: new backlight driver
>     for DELL AIO
>   UBUNTU: updateconfigs for Dell UART backlight driver
> 
>  debian.master/config/config.common.ubuntu  |   1 +
>  drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig               |  14 +
>  drivers/platform/x86/Makefile              |   1 +
>  drivers/platform/x86/dell-uart-backlight.c | 463 +++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/platform/x86/dell-uart-backlight.h |  36 ++
>  5 files changed, 515 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/dell-uart-backlight.c
>  create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/dell-uart-backlight.h
> 

A v4 of this patchset has been sent.

Thanks,
Kleber




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