Re: [PATCH v3] platform/wmi: Move ASUS platform drivers from x86 to wmi/asus

[Denis Benato <denis.benato@linux.dev>]

On 9/23/26 10:42, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 23-Sep-26 10:29, chipang_kao wrote:
>> Hi Armin, Hans, and all,
>>
>> Thank you for the feedback, Armin!
>>
>> I completely agree that separating WMI core infrastructure from WMI client
>> drivers makes logical sense. The reason v3 relocated the drivers to
>> drivers/platform/wmi/asus/ was based on Hans's earlier suggestion to use the
>> WMI subsystem hierarchy. However, Armin's point about keeping client drivers in
>> a brand-specific directory like drivers/platform/asus/ also provides a very
>> clean, cross-architecture solution for all ASUS platform drivers.
>>
>> Regarding the background: yes, the RTX Spark is indeed our target platform.
>> ASUS plans to provide user-space applications on Ubuntu to control platform
>> features via the WMI interface. During our bring-up on ARM64, we found that no
>> ASUS WMI modules were currently available for this architecture due to the
>> existing x86 Kconfig restriction. This patch series aims to enable
>> cross-architecture WMI support to address this gap.
>>
>> I am happy to go with either path (wmi/asus/ vs. platform/asus/). Hans, Armin,
>> what would be the preferred target directory before I prepare [PATCH v4]?
> If I understand things correctly then Armin prefers drivers/platform/asus
> that is completely fine with me, so lets go with drivers/platform/asus .

Hi Hans,

Yeah it's my understanding that drivers/platform/asus is the only path
that so far nobody has stated any reason to exclude so I agree on moving
asus-related stuff there.

> Having that will also be useful to share any platform specific drivers
> which directly use ACPI calls rather then WMI.
>
> E.g. I can see a drivers/platform/lenovo show up to use thinkpad_acpi
> on ThinkPad ARM64 laptops.
>
> Regards,
>
> Hans
>
>
>
Best regards,
Denis