Re: [PATCH 2.6.8.1 0/2] leds: new class for led devices

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> The kernel is NOT in sole control today on ARM platforms:
> 
> echo claim > /sys/devices/system/leds/leds0/event
> echo red on > /sys/devices/system/leds/leds0/event
> echo green on > /sys/devices/system/leds/leds0/event
> echo red off > /sys/devices/system/leds/leds0/event
> echo release > /sys/devices/system/leds/leds0/event
> 
> etc
> 
> Sure, we have a weird naming scheme (red, green, amber, blue) but
> that came around because that's what people were dealing with.
> There's nothing really stopping us from having any name for a LED
> in the existing scheme.
> 
> I just don't buy the "we must have one sysfs node for every LED"
> argument.

sysfs is one-file-one-value. We do not want to end up with /proc-like
mess.

								Pavel
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