Re: [PATCH v5 0/1] Add WMI driver to control AlienFX features

[Mario Limonciello <mario_limonciello@dell.com>]

On 03/26/2014 08:57 AM, Limonciello, Mario wrote:
> This is a driver for the Alienware X51, X51 R2 and some future HW.
>   - For the X51 / X51 R2 it allows control of the color and brightness
>     of each zone via a sysfs interface for the color and a LED interface
>     for the brightness
>   - For the future HW it allows control of color and brightness as well
>     as an HDMI mux that's included in the HW.
>
> Changes from v4 to v5:
>   - Make zone control more like the thingm RGB LED in the kernel.  Brightness
>     control is independent of the RGB adjustment.  RGB adjustment takes a 24-bit
>     hexadecimal triplet.
>   - Introduced a new WMAX method for platforms that use HDMI as well as a new
>     lighting control interface.  This removes the present necessity of having
>     to do a DMI match on HDMI for now.
>   - Dynamically create number of sysfs zone nodes based on DMI data. Present
>     platforms have 3 nodes, but some future ones will have anywhere from 2
>     to 32 nodes.
>   - Make lighting control state and HDMI more readable and usable for
>     interacting. Rather than having to know numbers, cat'ing the nodes will
>     output the available options and the presently selected option (in a
>     single line)
>
> Mario Limonciello (1):
>    Add WMI driver for controlling AlienFX features on some Alienware
>      products
>
>   drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig         |  12 +
>   drivers/platform/x86/Makefile        |   2 +
>   drivers/platform/x86/alienware-wmi.c | 557 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   3 files changed, 571 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/alienware-wmi.c
>
Matthew,

Any feedback to apply on this?

Thanks,