Re: [PATCH 2/4] leds: simatic-ipc-leds: add new driver for Siemens Industial PCs

[Henning Schild]

Am Wed, 3 Mar 2021 21:48:21 +0100
schrieb Henning Schild <henning.schild@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

> Am Wed, 3 Mar 2021 20:31:34 +0100
> schrieb Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>:
> 
> > Hi!
> >   
> > > > > +static struct simatic_ipc_led simatic_ipc_leds_io[] = {
> > > > > +	{1 << 15, "simatic-ipc:green:run-stop"},
> > > > > +	{1 << 7,  "simatic-ipc:yellow:run-stop"},
> > > > > +	{1 << 14, "simatic-ipc:red:error"},
> > > > > +	{1 << 6,  "simatic-ipc:yellow:error"},
> > > > > +	{1 << 13, "simatic-ipc:red:maint"},
> > > > > +	{1 << 5,  "simatic-ipc:yellow:maint"},
> > > > > +	{0, ""},
> > > > > +};      
> > > > 
> > > > Please use names consistent with other systems, this is user
> > > > visible. If you have two-color power led, it should be
> > > > :green:power... See include/dt-bindings/leds/common.h .    
> > > 
> > > Well we wanted to pick names that are printed on the devices and
> > > would like to stick to those. Has been a discussion ...
> > > Can we have symlinks to have multiple names per LED?    
> > 
> > No symlinks. We plan to have command line tool to manipulate LEDs,
> > aliases might be possible there.  
> 
> Sounds like a future plan. sysfs and "cat" "echo" are mighty tools and
> "everything is a file" is the best idea ever. So i would say any
> aliasing should live in the kernel, but that is just me. Tools will
> just get out of sync, be missing in busybox or a random yocto ... or
> whichever distro you like.
> On the other hand you have "complexity should be userland" ... i do
> not have the answer.

My personal horror would be systemd-ledd or some dracut snipet for
initrd. But that would be a generic led class discussion ... that tool.

> > > How strong would you feel about us using our names?    
> > 
> > Strongly. :-)  
> 
> OK, will try to find a match where possible. 

Do we happen to have a description of the existing names, to find a fit
for ours? In the header you pointed out i only found names without
"meaning"

regards,
Henning

> 
> > Do you have a picture how the leds look like?  
> 
> I could even find chassis photos in our internal review but that would
> be too much.
> 
> Our idea is probably the same as yours. We want the same names across
> all devices. But we struggle with colors because on some boxes we have
> red+green, while other offer yellow ... implemented in HW and messing
> with red+green in some cases.
> 
> But so far we only looked at Siemens devices and thought we could get
> our own "namespace".
> 
> To be honest i could not even tell how our names map on the known
> ones, but we will do our best to find a match. They all are
> "high-level" so "power" and other basic things are not exposed.
> 
> regards,
> Henning
>  
> > Best regards,
> > 							Pavel  
>