Re: [PATCH] leds: Add Chrome OS keyboard backlight LEDs driver

[Jacek Anaszewski]

On 03/04/2016 09:59 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 09:55:24PM +0100, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> > On 03/04/2016 08:13 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 04, 2016 at 10:38:40AM +0100, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> > > > Hi Evan,
> > > >
> > > > On 03/04/2016 09:38 AM, Evan McClain wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 2016-03-03 at 15:46 -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > > > > From: Simon Que <sque@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is a driver for ACPI-based keyboard backlight LEDs found on
> > > > > > Chromebooks. The driver locates \\_SB.KBLT ACPI device and exports
> > > > > > backlight as "chromeos::kbd_backlight" LED class device in sysfs.
> > > > >
> > > > > Was it ever decided where this driver should live? I was planning on
> > > > > submitting to platform/chrome since most keyboard backlights seem to
> > > > > live over there but I don't think I got a response.
> > > >
> > > > It hasn't been decided yet. I can take it, but could you submit one more
> > > > version, without
> > > >
> > > > 'owner	= THIS_MODULE' in struct platform_driver keyboard_led_driver ?
> > > >
> > > > It is redundant, because the core will do it.
> > > >
> > > > Also the line with devm_kzalloc has over 80 characters.
> > >
> > > Also:
> > >
> > > - preferably use sizeof(*cdev) instead of sizeof(struct ...)
> > > - do not check cdev->flags & LED_SUSPENDED in
> > >    keyboard_led_set_brightness() as it is not going to be called when led
> > >    device is suspended anyway
> > > - change the MODULE_LICENSE from "GPL v2" to "GPL" as to match the
> >
> > I can see "either version 2 of the License" in the license notice.
>
> > From module.h:
>
>   *	"GPL"				[GNU Public License v2 or later]
>   *	"GPL v2"			[GNU Public License v2]
>
> leds-chromeos-keyboard is GPL v2+ so module license should be "GPL".


That's surprising. Thanks for spotting this.

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Best Regards,
Jacek Anaszewski