linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Add Dell Business Class Netbook LED driver

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Date:	Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:28:30 -0800
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Bob Rodgers <Robert_Rodgers@...l.com>,
	"lenb@...nel.org" <lenb@...nel.org>,
	Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Louis Davis <Louis_Davis@...l.com>,
	Jim Dailey <Jim_Dailey@...l.com>,
	Michael Brown <Michael_E_Brown@...l.com>,
	Mario Limonciello <Mario_Limonciello@...l.com>,
	Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@...l.com>,
	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add Dell Business Class Netbook LED driver

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 06:07:15PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 10:05:19AM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> > Or stuck it in dell-wmi.c...
> 
> I'd prefer not to put it in dell-wmi. There's no logical association 
> between it and the rest of the code there, so it'd just be overhead on 
> the majority of systems. With the exception of cases where the event and 
> functional interfaces are different GUIDs, I'd prefer a one GUID per 
> driver model.
> 

This is an opposite direction form the rest of the platform drivers
which tend to combine functionality on per-vendor basis in one driver.

I'd say that in this case with this LED driver overhead on DELL systems
not supportinfg it is miniscule. The benefit is that all vendor-specific
sub-devices are children of one parent platform device.

-- 
Dmitry
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