Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] asus-wmi: Add support for RGB keyboards

[Luke Jones <luke@ljones.dev>]

My apologies to: Pavel, Barnabás, Andy, I should have CC'ed you all in 
from the start. I have a wee bit going on and forgot to do so.

Kind regards,
Luke.

On Mon, Aug 8 2022 at 15:04:14 +1200, Luke D. Jones <luke@ljones.dev> 
wrote:
> This is a patch series to add RGB support for ASUS laptops.
> The laptops with this RGB tend to be the TUF series of gamer laptops.
> 
> The first step is initial bringup of support using the multicolor LED 
> API.
> 
> These types of keyboards implement a slightly more complex interface 
> than
> just RGB control however - they also have modes with can be static 
> LED,
> blinking, rainbow, color cycles, and more. They also have some custom
> animations that can play depending on device state, such as suspended
> playing a fancy colour cycle, or playing a "wave" animation.
> 
> Two of the patches add support for these features.
> 
> The last patch adds documentation in:
> Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-asus-wmi
> 
> Some notes:
> 
> - this patch series obsoletes the previous RGB patches by myself
> 
> - it is not possible to add attribute groups to multicolor LED as
>   they get overwritten by `led_multicolor_groups` in
>   `led_classdev_multicolor_register_ext`.
> 
> - the methods for RGB control do not provide a way to fetch exisiting
>   state, so these methods are WO.
> 
> - There is an existing `asus::kbd_backlight`, this provides a 4-step
>   brightness to the RGB (off,low,med,high) individually to multicolor.
>   I was unsure of the effect of adding a similar path so have used the
>   `asus::multicolour::kbd_backlight` name to be clear about purpose.
>   If the `asus::kbd_backlight` is off, then no RGB is shown at all.
> 
> Changelog:
> - V2: patch 1: asus-wmi - RGB
> 	+ shorten a few lines
> 	+ move unused keyboard_rgb_mode_available to next patch
> 	+ remove tuf_rgb_brightness_get() is it was only returning current
> 	  led_classdev brightness, not reading it from device
> 	+ remove unnecessary setting of brightness on multicolor init
> 	+ set brightness_get to null for TUF RGB
> 	+ actually use the member subled_info in keyboard_rgb_led struct and
> 	  not the leftover dynamic allocation (now removed)
> - V2: patch 2: asus-wmi RGB mode control
> 	+ tuf_rgb_brightness_set() was still using hardcoded save/mode/speed
> 	  from testing. This is now using the pre-set default.
> 	+ asus_wmi_led_init(), set speed value to a correct value
> 	+ keyboard_rgb_mode_store() return count, not 0
> 	+ correctly unregister the mulicolor led on module exit
> 	+ use switch/case in keyboard_rgb_mode_store() for speed
> 	+ remove a single line bracket block
> - V2: patch 3: asus-wmi RGB power control
> 	+ Try to fix the indent warning from buildbot
> 	+ Use correct date on added API docs
> 	+ Add missing panel_od doc
> 	+ correctly label attribute for keyboard_rgb_state
> - V2: patch 4: documentation
> 	+ Add commit message
> - V2: patch 5: attributes using sysfs_emit:
> 	+ Add commit message
> - V2: patch 6: new patch, dgpu_only mode
> 	+ A previous patch I submitted 
> "0006-asus-wmi-Add-support-for-dGPU-only-mode.patch"
> 	  is now part of this series due to merge conflicts caused by the
> 	  previous 5 patches
> 
> Previous patches obsoleted:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/8/3/885
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/8/3/886
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/8/3/44
> I may not have listed all.
> 
> Luke D. Jones (6):
>   asus-wmi: Implement TUF laptop keyboard RGB control
>   asus-wmi: Implement TUF laptop keyboard LED modes
>   asus-wmi: Implement TUF laptop keyboard power states
>   asus-wmi: Document previously added attributes
>   asus-wmi: Convert all attr-show to use sysfs_emit
>   asus-wmi: Add support for dGPU-only mode
> 
>  .../ABI/testing/sysfs-platform-asus-wmi       |  68 ++++
>  drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c               | 343 
> +++++++++++++++++-
>  include/linux/platform_data/x86/asus-wmi.h    |   8 +
>  3 files changed, 412 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
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