[PATCH RFC 3/5] platform/x86: firmware_attributes_class: Add a boolean type

From: Kurt Borja
Date: Fri May 09 2025 - 03:52:46 EST


Add a `boolean` attribute type to prevent the use of the `enumeration`
type for this simple specification.

Signed-off-by: Kurt Borja <kuurtb@xxxxxxxxx>
---
.../ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes | 1 +
drivers/platform/x86/firmware_attributes_class.c | 16 ++++++++++++++++
drivers/platform/x86/firmware_attributes_class.h | 11 +++++++++++
3 files changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes
index 2713efa509b465a39bf014180794bf487e5b42d6..dc117e694416aed3f1f7ba0ebb1d0c23337b2298 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-firmware-attributes
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Description:
- enumeration: a set of pre-defined valid values
- integer: a range of numerical values
- string
+ - bool

HP specific types
-----------------
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/firmware_attributes_class.c b/drivers/platform/x86/firmware_attributes_class.c
index 7cfb0f49f235728c7450a82a7e9d00b8963d3dea..13b10a1209be726b00fa1ebad6148778e165101e 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/firmware_attributes_class.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/firmware_attributes_class.c
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(firmware_attributes_class);

static const char * const fwat_type_labels[] = {
[fwat_type_integer] = "integer",
+ [fwat_type_boolean] = "boolean",
[fwat_type_string] = "string",
[fwat_type_enumeration] = "enumeration",
};
@@ -72,6 +73,7 @@ fwat_current_value_show(struct device *dev, const struct fwat_attribute *attr, c
const struct fwat_attribute_ext *ext = to_fwat_attribute_ext(attr);
const struct fwat_attr_config *config = ext->config;
const char *str;
+ bool bool_val;
long int_val;
int ret;

@@ -82,6 +84,12 @@ fwat_current_value_show(struct device *dev, const struct fwat_attribute *attr, c
return ret;

return sysfs_emit(buf, "%ld\n", int_val);
+ case fwat_type_boolean:
+ ret = config->ops->boolean_read(dev, config->aux, &bool_val);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ return sysfs_emit(buf, "%u\n", bool_val);
case fwat_type_string:
ret = config->ops->string_read(dev, config->aux, &str);
if (ret)
@@ -105,6 +113,7 @@ fwat_current_value_store(struct device *dev, const struct fwat_attribute *attr,
{
const struct fwat_attribute_ext *ext = to_fwat_attribute_ext(attr);
const struct fwat_attr_config *config = ext->config;
+ bool bool_val;
long int_val;
int ret;

@@ -116,6 +125,13 @@ fwat_current_value_store(struct device *dev, const struct fwat_attribute *attr,

ret = config->ops->integer_write(dev, config->aux, int_val);
break;
+ case fwat_type_boolean:
+ ret = kstrtobool(buf, &bool_val);
+ if (ret)
+ return ret;
+
+ ret = config->ops->boolean_write(dev, config->aux, bool_val);
+ break;
case fwat_type_string:
ret = config->ops->string_write(dev, config->aux, buf);
break;
diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/firmware_attributes_class.h b/drivers/platform/x86/firmware_attributes_class.h
index f250875d785c3439682c43c693f98e1c20e9ff54..d95d2024b0d9630ee3750ec26e18874965ec5cff 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/firmware_attributes_class.h
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/firmware_attributes_class.h
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ struct fwat_attribute {

enum fwat_attr_type {
fwat_type_integer,
+ fwat_type_boolean,
fwat_type_string,
fwat_type_enumeration,
};
@@ -77,6 +78,10 @@ struct fwat_attr_config;
* type *integer*.
* @integer_write: Callback for writing the current_value of an attribute of
* type *integer*.
+ * @boolean_read: Callback for reading the current_value of an attribute of type
+ * *boolean*.
+ * @boolean_write: Callback for writing the current_value of an attribute of
+ * type *boolean*.
* @string_read: Callback for reading the current_value of an attribute of type
* *string*.
* @string_write: Callback for writing the current_value of an attribute of type
@@ -96,6 +101,12 @@ struct fwat_attr_ops {
int (*integer_write)(struct device *dev, long aux,
long val);
};
+ struct {
+ int (*boolean_read)(struct device *dev, long aux,
+ bool *val);
+ int (*boolean_write)(struct device *dev, long aux,
+ bool val);
+ };
struct {
int (*string_read)(struct device *dev, long aux,
const char **str);

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