[PATCH 00/14] Common Dell SMBIOS API

[MichaÅ KÄpieÅ]

The Linux kernel tree currently contains two Dell laptop-related drivers
issuing SMBIOS requests in different ways (dell-laptop in
drivers/platform/x86 and dell-led in drivers/led).  As an upcoming patch
series for the dell-wmi driver (also in drivers/platform/x86) will
change it so that it also performs SMBIOS requests, I took the
opportunity to unify the API used for issuing Dell SMBIOS requests
throughout the kernel before any further code duplication happens.
Credit for suggesting this goes to Pali RohÃr.

This patch series is primarily intended for the platform-x86 subsystem,
with only 2 final patches touching the LED subsystem.  I decided to send
the whole series to everyone involved to provide context - my apologies
if this is frowned upon.

As for making dell-led dependent on a driver in drivers/platform/x86,
let me just hint that Pali and I think it could be possible to
eventually move all of dell-led's code to drivers/platform/x86.  But
first things first.

The first patch generates a lot of checkpatch warnings, but these are
also raised for the original code and I decided that not changing the
code while moving around large quantities of it is critical for
reviewability.

Alex, as I don't have the hardware to test the changes in dell-led
(beyond compilation) and you contributed the parts of it which this
patch series changes, is there any way you might test it on relevant
hardware?

 drivers/leds/Kconfig               |    1 +
 drivers/leds/dell-led.c            |  125 ++--------
 drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig       |   12 +-
 drivers/platform/x86/Makefile      |    1 +
 drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c |  444 ++++++++++++------------------------
 drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios.c |  179 +++++++++++++++
 drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios.h |   48 ++++
 7 files changed, 395 insertions(+), 415 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios.h

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