linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 02/24] leds: core: Add support for composing LED class device names

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Date:   Thu, 15 Nov 2018 10:10:42 +0100
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@...il.com>
Cc:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org,
        "open list:OPEN FIRMWARE AND FLATTENED DEVICE TREE BINDINGS" 
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
        Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...aro.org>,
        Daniel Mack <daniel@...que.org>, dmurphy@...com,
        Oleh Kravchenko <oleg@....org.ua>,
        Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@...ux.intel.com>,
        simon@...eageos.org, xiaotong.lu@...eadtrum.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/24] leds: core: Add support for composing LED class
 device names

On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 8:55 PM Jacek Anaszewski
<jacek.anaszewski@...il.com> wrote:

> LED core has had a protection
> against name clash since the commit:
>
> commit a96aa64cb5723d941de879a9cd1fea025d6acb1b
> Author: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@...il.com>
> Date:   Mon Mar 30 10:45:59 2015 -0700
>
>     leds/led-class: Handle LEDs with the same name

Oh neat!

I guess the sysfs clashes I have seen can have been other
stuff then, but it was a while back, I don't think it was so far
back as this patch.

Yours,
Linus Walleij