Dell All In One (AIO) models released after 2017 use a backlight controller
board connected to an UART.
In DSDT this uart port will be defined as:
Name (_HID, "DELL0501")
Name (_CID, EisaId ("PNP0501")
Instead of having a separate ACPI device with an UartSerialBusV2() resource
to model the backlight-controller, which would be the standard way to do
this.
The acpi_quirk_skip_serdev_enumeration() has special handling for this
and it will make the serial port code create a serdev controller device
for the UART instead of a /dev/ttyS0 char-dev. It will also create
a dell-uart-backlight driver platform device for this driver to bind too.
This new kernel module contains 2 drivers for this:
1. A simple platform driver which creates the actual serdev device
(with the serdev controller device as parent)
2. A serdev driver for the created serdev device which exports
the backlight functionality uses a standard backlight class device.
Reported-by: Roman Bogoyev <roman@computercheck.com.au>
Tested-by: Roman Bogoyev <roman@computercheck.com.au>
Tested-by: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
Co-developed-by: AceLan Kao <acelan.kao@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: AceLan Kao <acelan.kao@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240513144603.93874-2-hdegoede@redhat.com
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