Re: [PATCH 4/9] platform/x86: asus-wmi: support toggling POST sound

["Luke Jones" <luke@ljones.dev>]

On Tue, 26 Mar 2024, at 3:02 AM, Ilpo Järvinen wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Mar 2024, Luke D. Jones wrote:
> 
> > Add support for toggling the BIOS POST sound on some ASUS laptops.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Luke D. Jones <luke@ljones.dev>
> > ---
> >  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-asus-wmi       |  9 ++++
> >  drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c               | 51 +++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/linux/platform_data/x86/asus-wmi.h    |  3 ++
> >  3 files changed, 63 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-asus-wmi b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-asus-wmi
> > index 61a745d2476f..5645dbac4ce8 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-asus-wmi
> > +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-asus-wmi
> > @@ -194,3 +194,12 @@ Contact: "Luke Jones" <luke@ljones.dev>
> >  Description:
> >  Set the target temperature limit of the Nvidia dGPU:
> >  * min=75, max=87
> > +
> > +What: /sys/devices/platform/<platform>/boot_sound
> > +Date: Jun 2023
> > +KernelVersion: 6.10
> > +Contact: "Luke Jones" <luke@ljones.dev>
> > +Description:
> > + Set if the BIOS POST sound is played on boot.
> > + * 0 - False,
> > + * 1 - True
> > \ No newline at end of file
> > diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
> > index 094a93f24667..6cac9c3eb8b2 100644
> > --- a/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
> > +++ b/drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c
> > @@ -2106,6 +2106,54 @@ static ssize_t panel_od_store(struct device *dev,
> >  }
> >  static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(panel_od);
> >  
> > +/* Bootup sound ***************************************************************/
> > +
> > +static ssize_t boot_sound_show(struct device *dev,
> > +      struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
> > +{
> > + struct asus_wmi *asus = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
> > + int result;
> > +
> > + result = asus_wmi_get_devstate_simple(asus, ASUS_WMI_DEVID_BOOT_SOUND);
> > + if (result < 0)
> > + return result;
> > +
> > + return sysfs_emit(buf, "%d\n", result);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static ssize_t boot_sound_store(struct device *dev,
> > +       struct device_attribute *attr,
> > +       const char *buf, size_t count)
> > +{
> > + int result, err;
> > + u32 snd;
> > +
> > + struct asus_wmi *asus = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
> > +
> > + result = kstrtou32(buf, 10, &snd);
> > + if (result)
> > + return result;
> > +
> > + if (snd > 1)
> > + return -EINVAL;
> > +
> > + err = asus_wmi_set_devstate(ASUS_WMI_DEVID_BOOT_SOUND, snd, &result);
> > + if (err) {
> > + pr_warn("Failed to set boot sound: %d\n", err);
> > + return err;
> > + }
> > +
> > + if (result > 1) {
> > + pr_warn("Failed to set panel boot sound (result): 0x%x\n", result);
> > + return -EIO;
> > + }
> > +
> > + sysfs_notify(&asus->platform_device->dev.kobj, NULL, "boot_sound");
> > +
> > + return count;
> > +}
> > +static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(boot_sound);
> 
> I started to think that perhaps these would be a way to create helper for 
> these sysfs functions to call as they are quite similar, only the wmi id, 
> strings and the range check change (the GPU functions do a few extra 
> checks and could remain standalone functions but the rest look very 
> similar to each other).

I absolutely agree. In rust I would have written function or macro by now. I'm working on this but won't submit until we've been through the existing chain and applied.

Looks like the entire asus-wmi could use some maintenance tbh, I'll do what I can.

Cheers,
Luke.