linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] led/led-class: Handle LEDs with the same name

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Date:	Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:15:58 -0600
From:	Josh Cartwright <joshc@...com>
To:	Bryan Wu <cooloney@...il.com>
Cc:	Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@...il.com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Linux LED Subsystem <linux-leds@...r.kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] led/led-class: Handle LEDs with the same name

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 04:52:45PM -0800, Bryan Wu wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 4:32 PM, Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
[..]
> > Then we have TWO gpios chip. Each of them have a led named red. When
> > the second gpio-led is probed we have an error. Everything else
> > (address offset, phandle, device renaming) is handled properly already
> > by the kernel.
> >
> > On this system I cannot control card.dtb, or which type of cards will
> > the user connect to the system. The DT is generated in run-time based
> > on the hardware connected to the pci slots.
> >
> So you're supposed to get 2 card.dtb files for 2 PCI cards, right?
> They should be different and you need to choose different name for the
> hardware.

Is this solvable by adding support for led properties in an aliases { }
node?  I suppose that would mean you'd need to also overlay a selection
of which LED is "red", but I don't know if that is a problem.

  Josh
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