linux-kernel - Re: leds-lp5523: Broken commit db6eaf8388a413a5ee1b4547ce78506b9c6456b0

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Date:	Mon, 5 Aug 2013 15:55:40 -0700
From:	Bryan Wu <cooloney@...il.com>
To:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:	"Kim, Milo" <Milo.Kim@...com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@....fi>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: leds-lp5523: Broken commit db6eaf8388a413a5ee1b4547ce78506b9c6456b0

On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 12:31 AM, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com> wrote:
> On Monday 05 August 2013 09:26:46 Kim, Milo wrote:
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > git commit "leds-lp5523: use generic firmware interface"
>> > db6eaf8388a413a5ee1b4547ce78506b9c6456b0 introduced in
>> > kernel 3.10 changed user space API for modifing lp5523 led
>> > patterns via /sys.
>> >
>> > Before this commit there were sysfs attributes engineX_mode,
>> > engineX_load and engineX_leds (for every engine X).
>> >
>> > Now (after commit) there are sysfs attributes:
>> > select_engine, loading and data (see:
>> > 10c06d178df11b0b2b746321a80ea14241997127 for description).
>> > Old sysfs attributes were removed.
>> >
>> > So commit db6eaf8388a413a5ee1b4547ce78506b9c6456b0 totally
>> > broke all existing userspace applications which use lp5523
>> > leds.
>> >
>> > This also broke application MCE which is used on Nokia N900
>> > phone for changing LED patterns in lp5523 led.
>>
>> First of all, I'm really sorry for this conflict.
>>
>> > I think that kernel api which is used by userspace
>> > applications (like attributes in /sys) should not be
>> > changed in way that totally broke existing applications.
>> >
>> > Can you fix this api problem? (maybe adding old sysfs
>> > attributes which would call new api function...)
>>
>> I'll recover old sysfs attributes and implement them by using
>> new functions. Additionally, I'll do same works in LP5521
>> driver also.
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Milo
>
> Hi, thank you very much!
>

Also my bad, I should noticed that and keep those old APIs at that moment.
Thanks for reporting this. I think Milo is going to fix it and I
probably pull this fix into 3.11 cycle instead of next merge window.

-Bryan
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