From: Andreas Kemnade <andreas@kemnade.info>
To: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@bitmath.org>
Cc: Brad Campbell <brad@fnarfbargle.com>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-hwmon@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
hns@goldelico.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] applesmc: Re-work SMC comms v2
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 09:15:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201105091547.3335aed6@aktux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6d071547-10ee-ca92-ec8b-4b5069d04501@bitmath.org>
On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 08:56:04 +0100
Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@bitmath.org> wrote:
> Hi Brad,
>
> Great to see this effort, it is certainly an area which could be
> improved. After having seen several generations of Macbooks while
> modifying much of that code, it became clear that the SMC communication
> got refreshed a few times over the years. Every tiny change had to be
> tested on all machines, or kept separate for a particular generation, or
> something would break.
>
> I have not followed the back story here, but I imagine the need has
> arisen because of a new refresh, and so this patch only needs to
> strictly apply to a new generation. I would therefore advice that you
> write the patch in that way, reducing the actual change to zero for
> earlier generations. It also makes it easier to test the effect of the
> new approach on older systems. I should be able to help testing on a
> 2008 and 2011 model once we get to that stage.
>
Well, the issue has arisen because of a change in kernel to make clang
happy. So it is not a new Apple device causing trouble.
Regards,
Andreas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-05 8:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-30 8:54 [REGRESSION] hwmon: (applesmc) avoid overlong udelay() Andreas Kemnade
2020-09-30 16:44 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-09-30 20:00 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-10-01 22:22 ` Andreas Kemnade
2020-10-02 4:07 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-10-06 7:02 ` Andreas Kemnade
2020-11-02 23:56 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-03 5:56 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-04 13:20 ` Andreas Kemnade
2020-11-05 2:18 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-05 4:22 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-05 4:43 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-11-05 5:05 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-05 5:26 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-11-05 5:47 ` [PATCH] applesmc: Re-work SMC comms v1 Brad Campbell
2020-11-05 7:26 ` [PATCH] applesmc: Re-work SMC comms v2 Brad Campbell
2020-11-05 7:56 ` Henrik Rydberg
2020-11-05 8:15 ` Andreas Kemnade [this message]
2020-11-05 8:30 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-05 10:31 ` Henrik Rydberg
2020-11-06 16:26 ` Henrik Rydberg
2020-11-06 20:02 ` Henrik Rydberg
2020-11-07 18:31 ` Henrik Rydberg
2020-11-08 0:09 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-08 8:22 ` Henrik Rydberg
2020-11-08 1:00 ` [PATCH v3] applesmc: Re-work SMC comms Brad Campbell
2020-11-08 8:35 ` Henrik Rydberg
2020-11-08 10:14 ` Henrik Rydberg
2020-11-08 11:57 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-08 12:04 ` Henrik Rydberg
2020-11-09 13:06 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-09 17:08 ` Henrik Rydberg
2020-11-09 22:52 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-08 16:06 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-11-09 0:25 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-10 2:04 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-10 4:55 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-11-10 5:40 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-10 16:02 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-11-09 8:44 ` Andreas Kemnade
2020-11-09 9:51 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-11 3:37 ` [PATCH v4 0/1] " Brad Campbell
2020-11-11 4:55 ` [PATCH v1] applesmc: Cleanups on top of re-work comms Brad Campbell
2020-11-11 3:38 ` [PATCH v4 1/1] applesmc: Re-work SMC comms Brad Campbell
2020-11-11 5:56 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-11-11 7:05 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-11 13:06 ` [PATCH v5 " Brad Campbell
2020-11-11 20:05 ` Henrik Rydberg
2020-11-11 23:28 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-12 3:08 ` [PATCH v6 " Brad Campbell
2020-11-12 17:20 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-11-06 23:11 ` [PATCH] applesmc: Re-work SMC comms v2 Brad Campbell
2020-11-05 8:12 ` Andreas Kemnade
2020-11-05 16:12 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-11-06 0:02 ` Brad Campbell
2020-11-06 3:08 ` Guenter Roeck
2020-11-09 9:27 ` [PATCH] applesmc: Re-work SMC comms v1 kernel test robot
2020-11-05 9:48 ` [REGRESSION] hwmon: (applesmc) avoid overlong udelay() Arnd Bergmann
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