RE: Question about cleaning up the LP5521/5523 LED driver

From: Kim, Milo
Date: Mon Sep 17 2012 - 19:14:40 EST


> > Should I keep the sysfs layout of LP5521 and LP5523?
> > When we change the device attributes, do we have to consider the
> backward compatibility?
>
> The ABI is a contract so basically yes, you need real good reasons
> (like security concerns) to change the ABI.
>
> That said, the lm3533 is the only LED driver that has actually
> documented
> its ABI: Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led-driver-lm3533

OK, thanks for your great help !

Best Regards,
Milo
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