Hi all,
I found a great blog post [1], which described the reverse engineering
process of the GPIO control methods present on this device.
In summary, these methods expose some debugging capabilities of the RGB
lighting controller present on Dell gaming laptops. See [Patch 2] for
more info.
Exposing these methods to DebugFS is useful for developers exploring
this RGB controllers (myself included).
Thanks for your feedback!
[1] https://gabriel.marcanobrady.family/blog/2024/12/16/dell-g5-5505-se-acpi-or-figuring-out-how-to-reset-the-rgb-controller/
Signed-off-by: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@gmail.com>
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Changes in v4:
- Reuse name[] for all file a directory names in awcc_debugfs_init()
- Reword commit message to correctly reflect previous changes
- Link to v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250502-awcc-gpio-v3-0-ea9a932d1124@gmail.com
Changes in v3:
- Create pinX files dynamically, based on GPIO pin count
- Added note on dummy input arguments in Documentation
- Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250427-awcc-gpio-v2-0-c731373b5d02@gmail.com
Changes in v2:
- Dropped module parameter
- Added ABI documentation to Patch 1
- Small improvements to documentation based on Armin's comments
- Improved Pin description table format
- Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250423-awcc-gpio-v1-0-160a11bc3f9a@gmail.com
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Kurt Borja (2):
platform/x86: alienware-wmi-wmax: Expose GPIO debug methods
Documentation: wmi: alienware-wmi: Add GPIO control documentation
Documentation/ABI/testing/debugfs-alienware-wmi | 20 +++++
Documentation/wmi/devices/alienware-wmi.rst | 82 ++++++++++++++++++-
drivers/platform/x86/dell/alienware-wmi-wmax.c | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
3 files changed, 201 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 67e2635fe0cca5f0383c0780db986d8237e83f0a
change-id: 20250413-awcc-gpio-24b1f5c546d2
Best regards,
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~ Kurt