linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] platform/chrome: Standardize Chrome OS keyboard backlight name

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Date:   Thu, 4 Apr 2019 10:36:35 -0700
From:   Guenter Roeck <groeck@...gle.com>
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 <jacek.anaszewski@...il.com>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com,
        Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@...ertech.it>,
        linux-rtc@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Duncan Laurie <dlaurie@...omium.org>,
        Simon Glass <sjg@...gle.com>, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3/3] platform/chrome: Standardize Chrome OS keyboard
 backlight name

On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 10:11 AM Nick Crews <ncrews@...omium.org> wrote:
>
> We want all backlights for the system keyboard to
> use a common name, so the name "platform::kbd_backlight"
> would be better than the current "chromeos::kbd_backlight"
> name. Normally this wouldn't be worth changing, but the new
> Wilco keyboard backlight driver uses the "platform" name.
> We want to make it so all Chrome OS devices are consistent,
> so we'll change the name here too.
>

Wondering - who is the "we" you are talking about ?

Guenter

> The Power Manager daemon only looks for LEDs that match the
> pattern "*:kbd_backlight", so this change won't affect that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Crews <ncrews@...omium.org>
> ---
>  drivers/platform/chrome/cros_kbd_led_backlight.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_kbd_led_backlight.c b/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_kbd_led_backlight.c
> index aa409f0201fb..c56c8405f39c 100644
> --- a/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_kbd_led_backlight.c
> +++ b/drivers/platform/chrome/cros_kbd_led_backlight.c
> @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ static int keyboard_led_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>         if (!cdev)
>                 return -ENOMEM;
>
> -       cdev->name = "chromeos::kbd_backlight";
> +       cdev->name = "platform::kbd_backlight";
>         cdev->max_brightness = ACPI_KEYBOARD_BACKLIGHT_MAX;
>         cdev->flags |= LED_CORE_SUSPENDRESUME;
>         cdev->brightness_set = keyboard_led_set_brightness;
> --
> 2.20.1
>