Re: [PATCH 00/10] fujitsu-laptop: use device-specific data instead of module-wide globals

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 3:45 PM, MichaÅ KÄpieÅ <kernel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> To be fair, one thing that may be "unnatural" with this approach is that
> even though fujitsu-backlight would depend on fujitsu-laptop, it would
> still have to get a handle to FUJ02E3 using:
>
>     acpi_get_handle(NULL, "\\_SB.FEXT", ...)
>
> because call_fext_func() - and thus fext_backlight() - needs to be
> passed a handle to FUJ02E3 and the two ACPI devices (FUJ02B1 handled by
> fujitsu-backlight and FUJ02E3 handled by fujitsu-laptop) are not related
> from the perspective of the ACPI device hierarchy.  Unless there is a
> better way of implementing this, in which case I am open to suggestions.

There are two areas to check with:
1. Remote graph node
https://lwn.net/Articles/718184/
2. Component framework (only works in case when all devices are
mandatory to have).

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko