[PATCH v2 00/16] 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.

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.

Changes from v1:

  - the SMBIOS buffer is no longer exported from the new dell-smbios
    module (patch 03 from v1 has been dropped, patches 08-09 from v2
    implement this change),

  - dell_smbios_send_request() is changed so that it doesn't return an
    SMBIOS buffer (patch 07 from v2),

  - slight patch reordering.

Note:

    In this series (both v1 and v2) I tried to stick to the overall
    concept used in dell-laptop, but in the v1 thread me and Pali also
    briefly discussed his alternative ideas [1][2] as to what this API
    could look like, so feel free to suggest a different approach.

[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg08260.html
[2] http://www.spinics.net/lists/platform-driver-x86/msg08268.html

 drivers/leds/Kconfig               |    1 +
 drivers/leds/dell-led.c            |  126 ++-----------
 drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig       |   12 +-
 drivers/platform/x86/Makefile      |    1 +
 drivers/platform/x86/dell-laptop.c |  340 ++++++++++--------------------------
 drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios.c |  176 +++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios.h |   44 +++++
 7 files changed, 344 insertions(+), 356 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios.c
 create mode 100644 drivers/platform/x86/dell-smbios.h

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