Re: [PATCH v2] dt-bindings: leds: Allow differently named multicolor leds

From: J. Neuschäfer
Date: Thu Apr 17 2025 - 10:35:37 EST


On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 12:12:37PM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 03:04:32PM +0200, J. Neuschäfer wrote:
> > In some cases, for example when using multiple instances of
> > leds-group-multicolor, a board may have multiple multi-leds which can't
> > be distinguished by unit address. In such cases it should be possible to
> > name them differently, for example multi-led-a and multi-led-b. This
> > patch adds another node name pattern to leds-class-multicolor.yaml to
> > allow such names.
>
> Really, multi-led-0, multi-led-1, etc. would be preferred like we have
> in other places.

I'll change the examples to -0, -1. I'm also open to restricting the
pattern to something else than -.+

>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: J. Neuschäfer <j.ne@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > V2:
> > - Add Krzysztof's review tag
> > - mention leds-group-multicolor in the commit message
> > - rebase on 6.15-rc1
> >
> > Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250209-multi-led-v1-1-5aebccbd2db7@xxxxxxxxxx
> > ---
> > Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-class-multicolor.yaml | 4 +++-
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-class-multicolor.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-class-multicolor.yaml
> > index bb40bb9e036ee00e06d21e2321ecd5a7d471c408..c22af25b6430be71300c0e37f696cd61112ea190 100644
> > --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-class-multicolor.yaml
> > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-class-multicolor.yaml
> > @@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ description: |
> >
> > properties:
> > $nodename:
> > - pattern: "^multi-led(@[0-9a-f])?$"
> > + oneOf:
> > + - pattern: "^multi-led(@[0-9a-f])?$"
> > + - pattern: "^multi-led-.*$"
>
> Combine these:
>
> '^multi-led(-.+|@[0-9a-f])?$'
>
> oneOf is best avoided because the error messages aren't so great.

Alright, I'll change that.

>
> >
> > color:
> > description: |
> >
> > ---
> > base-commit: 0af2f6be1b4281385b618cb86ad946eded089ac8
> > change-id: 20250209-multi-led-9991e205befd
> >
> > Best regards,
> > --
> > J. Neuschäfer <j.ne@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >