linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] leds: add LED_ON brightness as boolean value

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Date:   Wed, 4 Jan 2017 23:42:30 +0100
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@...il.com>
Cc:     Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@...sung.com>,
        Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Shyti <andi@...zian.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds: add LED_ON brightness as boolean value

Hi!

> > Some devices do not handle the led brightness or simply don't
> > care about it. Conceptually said devices want to just switch on
> > or off the led. It is useless in this case to have a 255 range
> > of brightness, while just having an LED_ON and LED_OFF improves
> > the boolean meaning of the led status.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Andi Shyti <andi.shyti@...sung.com>
> > ---
> >  include/linux/leds.h | 1 +
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/include/linux/leds.h b/include/linux/leds.h
> > index 569cb531094c..0258f9c49034 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/leds.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/leds.h
> > @@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ struct device;
> >  
> >  enum led_brightness {
> >  	LED_OFF		= 0,
> > +	LED_ON,
> 
> Now lack of explicit value assignment to LED_ON looks weird
> since it is surrounded by other initializer values.
> I'd prefer to have "LED_ON = 1," in this line.

Yes, please, good idea.

(Documentation already says on/off leds should use 0/1. Good.)

With "= 1" added for consistency,

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
									Pavel
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