Re: [PATCH v5 05/26] leds: core: Add support for composing LED class device names

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Jun 28 2019 - 04:46:30 EST


On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 8:08 PM Jacek Anaszewski
<jacek.anaszewski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Add generic support for composing LED class device name. The newly
> introduced led_compose_name() function composes device name according
> to either <color:function> or <devicename:color:function> pattern,
> depending on the configuration of initialization data.
>
> Backward compatibility with in-driver hard-coded LED class device
> names is assured thanks to the default_label and devicename properties
> of newly introduced struct led_init_data.
>
> In case none of the aforementioned properties was found, then, for OF
> nodes, the node name is adopted for LED class device name.
>
> At the occassion of amending the Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt
> unify spelling: colour -> color.
>
> Alongside these changes added is a new tool - tools/leds/get_led_device_info.sh.
> The tool allows retrieving details of a LED class device's parent device,
> which proves that using vendor or product name for devicename part
> of LED name doesn't convey any added value since that information had been
> already available in sysfs. The script performs also basic validation
> of a LED class device name.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@xxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Oleh Kravchenko <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Simon Shields <simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

This is good progress on trying to bring order in chaos.

A problem with LEDs is that it invites bikeshedding because it is too
relateable.

So by the motto "rough consensus and running code":
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij