Re: [PATCH] platform/x86: asus-wmi: change quiet to low-power

[Armin Wolf <W_Armin@gmx.de>]

Am 25.02.25 um 07:13 schrieb Luke Jones:

> On Mon, 2025-02-24 at 18:39 -0800, Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> On 2/24/2025 16:35, Luke Jones wrote:
>>> From: "Luke D. Jones" <luke@ljones.dev>
>>>
>>> Change the profile name "quiet" to "low-power" to match the AMD
>>> name. The
>>> primary reason for this is to match AMD naming for
>>> platform_profiles and
>>> allow both to match. It does not affect Intel machines.
>>>
>>> The quiet profile is essentially a low-power profile which tweaks
>>> both TDP and fans - this applies to 80+ ASUS laptops.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Luke D. Jones <luke@ljones.dev>
>> Reviewed-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@amd.com>
>>
>> IMO - this should have a fixes tag since this should probably go in
>> the
>> 6.14 cycle too.
>>
>> Fixes: 688834743d67 ("ACPI: platform_profile: Allow multiple
>> handlers")
>>
> Good point, thanks. I assume when pulled in this can be added?

Antheas is concerned that this patch might break brittle userspace scripts
like "echo quiet | sudo tee /sys/firmware/acpi/platform_profile".

Maybe we should instead change the strategy used by the legacy platform-profile
handler when selecting supported profiles?

Thanks,
Armin Wolff

>>> ---
>>>    drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c | 6 +++---
>>>    1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
>>> b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
>>> index d22748f1e154..de19c3b3d8fb 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
>>> +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
>>> @@ -3945,7 +3945,7 @@ static int
>>> asus_wmi_platform_profile_get(struct device *dev,
>>>    		*profile = PLATFORM_PROFILE_PERFORMANCE;
>>>    		break;
>>>    	case ASUS_THROTTLE_THERMAL_POLICY_SILENT:
>>> -		*profile = PLATFORM_PROFILE_QUIET;
>>> +		*profile = PLATFORM_PROFILE_LOW_POWER;
>>>    		break;
>>>    	default:
>>>    		return -EINVAL;
>>> @@ -3969,7 +3969,7 @@ static int
>>> asus_wmi_platform_profile_set(struct device *dev,
>>>    	case PLATFORM_PROFILE_BALANCED:
>>>    		tp = ASUS_THROTTLE_THERMAL_POLICY_DEFAULT;
>>>    		break;
>>> -	case PLATFORM_PROFILE_QUIET:
>>> +	case PLATFORM_PROFILE_LOW_POWER:
>>>    		tp = ASUS_THROTTLE_THERMAL_POLICY_SILENT;
>>>    		break;
>>>    	default:
>>> @@ -3982,7 +3982,7 @@ static int
>>> asus_wmi_platform_profile_set(struct device *dev,
>>>
>>>    static int asus_wmi_platform_profile_probe(void *drvdata,
>>> unsigned long *choices)
>>>    {
>>> -	set_bit(PLATFORM_PROFILE_QUIET, choices);
>>> +	set_bit(PLATFORM_PROFILE_LOW_POWER, choices);
>>>    	set_bit(PLATFORM_PROFILE_BALANCED, choices);
>>>    	set_bit(PLATFORM_PROFILE_PERFORMANCE, choices);
>>>
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