linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] Add documentation for tca6507 devicetree bindings.

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Message-ID: <CAK5ve-KbZJJHSrL8vuAwU2C1DQ4tTD8DwC2=4N830iALv-a9EA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Nov 2012 14:50:07 -0800
From:	Bryan Wu <cooloney@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org>,
	Marek Belisko <marek.belisko@...n-nandra.com>
Cc:	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Rob Herring <rob.herring@...xeda.com>,
	Stephen Warren <swarren@...dia.com>, rpurdie@...ys.net,
	linux-leds@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree-discuss@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] Add documentation for tca6507 devicetree bindings.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Stephen Warren <swarren@...dotorg.org> wrote:
> On 11/13/2012 06:05 PM, Bryan Wu wrote:
>> It looks fine to me, but I need a DT maintainer's ack. Stephen, could
>> you help on this. I will merge this patch via my tree.
>
> I'm not actually a DT maintainer; I CC'd Grant and Rob.

Sure, thanks for this.

> Marek probably wants to repost the whole patch to them. Comments below.
>
>>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/tca6507.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/tca6507.txt
> ...
>>> +LED sub-node properties:
> ...
>>> +  string defining the trigger assigned to the LED.  Current triggers are:
>>> +    "backlight" - LED will act as a back-light, controlled by the framebuffer
>>> +                 system
>>> +    "default-on" - LED will turn on
>>> +    "heartbeat" - LED "double" flashes at a load average based rate
>>> +    "ide-disk" - LED indicates disk activity
>>> +    "timer" - LED flashes at a fixed, configurable rate
>
> It would be useful to point at a single canonical document that
> describes the triggers, rather than duplicating the list into every binding.
>

Yeah, actually I saw several leds related DT binding txt are similar
and probably based on Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/led.txt.
It's good to have a common one. Marek, are you going to do this? Thanks.

> Aside from that, I think this looks reasonable.
>
> Oh, looking at Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/led.txt, should a
> default-state property be supported?

I'm not sure about this for ti,tca6507 and it really depends on the
driver implementation. But we can add this later.

-Bryan
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