linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vt: fix Scroll Lock LED trigger name

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Message-ID: <20161116072442.GA19957@kroah.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Nov 2016 08:24:42 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     "Maciej S. Szmigiero" <mail@...iej.szmigiero.name>
Cc:     Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@...-lyon.org>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt: fix Scroll Lock LED trigger name

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 12:55:57AM +0100, Maciej S. Szmigiero wrote:
> There is a disagreement between drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c and
> drivers/input/input-leds.c with regard to what is a Scroll Lock LED
> trigger name: input calls it "kbd-scrolllock", but vt calls it
> "kbd-scrollock" (two l's).
> This prevents Scroll Lock LED trigger from binding to this LED by default.
> 
> Since it is a scroLL Lock LED, this interface was introduced only about a
> year ago and in an Internet search people seem to reference this trigger
> only to set it to this LED let's simply rename it to "kbd-scrolllock".
> 
> Also, it looks like this was supposed to be changed before this code was
> merged: https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/6/9/697 but it was done only on
> the input side.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maciej S. Szmigiero <mail@...iej.szmigiero.name>
> ---
>  drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c b/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
> index d5d81d4d3c04..3dd6a491cdba 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/keyboard.c
> @@ -982,7 +982,7 @@ static void kbd_led_trigger_activate(struct led_classdev *cdev)
>  	KBD_LED_TRIGGER((_led_bit) + 8, _name)
>  
>  static struct kbd_led_trigger kbd_led_triggers[] = {
> -	KBD_LED_TRIGGER(VC_SCROLLOCK, "kbd-scrollock"),
> +	KBD_LED_TRIGGER(VC_SCROLLOCK, "kbd-scrolllock"),
>  	KBD_LED_TRIGGER(VC_NUMLOCK,   "kbd-numlock"),
>  	KBD_LED_TRIGGER(VC_CAPSLOCK,  "kbd-capslock"),
>  	KBD_LED_TRIGGER(VC_KANALOCK,  "kbd-kanalock"),

So, how far back should this change be backported to?

thanks,

greg k-h