linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Standardize onboard LED support for 96Boards

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Message-ID: <CACRpkdarkLuErC_F4ALqOB5Wuf7TnDXmWZVKvfR7iGvOy=j++g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 31 Oct 2018 22:17:29 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>
Cc:     Manivannan Sadhasivam <manivannan.sadhasivam@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>,
        Heiko Stübner <heiko@...ech.de>,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org,
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        Xu Wei <xuwei5@...ilicon.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "open list:ARM/Rockchip SoC..." <linux-rockchip@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Nicolas Dechesne <nicolas.dechesne@...aro.org>,
        Koen Kooi <koen.kooi@...aro.org>,
        Linux ARM <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        Andy Gross <andy.gross@...aro.org>,
        Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria@...aro.org>,
        ezequiel@...labora.com, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Standardize onboard LED support for 96Boards

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 4:47 PM Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu> wrote:

> No doubt about it that this is good. If this is there from day 1 all will be good.
> I am just saying that we are all the time
> saying that we shouldn't break userspace. Right now if there is single application
> which uses existing names we are breaking it.

Yeah that's the problem, the approach is usually that if a tree falls
in the forest and noone is there to hear it, then it doesn't make a
sound.

But we can't assume someone is there as the safe default either.

I'd say apply it and see what happens, people are supposed to test.

Yours,
Linus Walleij