linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] fujitsu-laptop: Support radio LED

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Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:39:38 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Michał Kępień <kernel@...pniu.pl>
Cc:	Jonathan Woithe <jwoithe@...t42.net>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fujitsu-laptop: Support radio LED

Hi!
> 
> Either your clock is really off or it took you 3 weeks to get this
> message out ;)  Just letting you know.

Clock is off.

> > > +
> > > +static enum led_brightness radio_led_get(struct led_classdev *cdev);
> > > +static void radio_led_set(struct led_classdev *cdev,
> > > +			       enum led_brightness brightness);
> > > +
> > > +static struct led_classdev radio_led = {
> > > + .name = "fujitsu::radio_led",
> > > + .brightness_get = radio_led_get,
> > > + .brightness_set = radio_led_set
> > > +};
> > 
> > Is the naming consistent with other drivers?
> 
> I am not entirely clear what you are referring to.  If it is the double
> colon, that seems to be the convention used throughout the
> platform-driver-x86 tree.  If it is the LED's name ("radio_led"), I
> failed to find a similarly purposed LED in the platform-driver-x86 tree
> with a name I could reuse.  I decided to use the _led suffix to
> differentiate this LED from the "lamps" already implemented by
> fujitsu-laptop.

I'd expected the led to be called "fujitsu::rfkill" but it looks that you
are first one in tree with something similar, so I guess you get to
pick the name.

It would be nice to have easily-available list of all the suffixes. We
have keyboard backlights, keyboard frontlights, LED flashes, ...

> > Should there be default trigger so that it works out of the box?
> 
> I have covered this issue in the lengthy comment attached to this patch:
> 
> > One last remark is that I think this LED would best be driven by an
> > inverted airplane mode LED trigger (as proposed by João Paulo Rechi
> > Vita).  As the code for that trigger is not yet merged, I refrained from
> > setting the default_trigger field in struct led_classdev radio_led.
> > Perhaps it's a candidate for a follow-up patch in the future.
> 
> I haven't found a way to make this work the intended way out of the box,
> not with the currently available set of LED triggers.  That being said,
> I would be happy if someone proved me wrong.

Aha, ok.

Thanks,
								Pavel

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