linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: Add Wilco EC keyboard backlight LEDs support

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Message-ID: <20190404112415.GB18653@amd>
Date:   Thu, 4 Apr 2019 13:24:15 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Nick Crews <ncrews@...omium.org>
Cc:     Enric Balletbo i Serra <enric.balletbo@...labora.com>,
        Benson Leung <bleung@...omium.org>, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org,
        jacek.anaszewski@...il.com,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@...omium.org>,
        Daniel Erat <derat@...gle.com>,
        Guenter Roeck <groeck@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] platform/chrome: Add Wilco EC keyboard backlight LEDs
 support

On Mon 2019-03-11 09:29:06, Nick Crews wrote:
> Thanks for looking this over. I will fix most of your concerns, but
> have one question.
> 
> On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 2:08 PM Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri 2019-03-08 13:38:02, Nick Crews wrote:
> > > This patch is meant to be applied on top of the for-next
> > > branch of the platform/chrome repository, as it uses some of
> > > the code staged there.
> > >
> > > The EC is in charge of controlling the keyboard backlight on
> > > the Wilco platform. We expose a standard LED class device at
> > > /sys/class/leds/wilco::kbd_backlight. This driver is modeled
> > > after the standard Chrome OS keyboard backlight driver at
> > > drivers/platform/chrome/cros_kbd_led_backlight.c
> >
> > Can you make it "platform::kbd_backlight"? We want some consistency
> > there.
> 
> The analogous name in the standard driver
> drivers/platform/chrome/cros_kbd_led_backlight.c is
> "chromeos::kbd_backlight", and I thought "wilco" was a better
> substitute for "chromeos" than "platform" would be. What other thing
> are you saying "platform" would be consistent with?

Yeah, well, we not let the cros_kbd_led_backlight.c use chromeos:: in
the first place. But it happened. We want all backlights for the
system keyboard to use common name, and "chromeos" is not really
suitable for that. "platform" is.

									Pavel
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