linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: leds: add LED_FUNCTION

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Message-ID: <a19688d3-5402-41c0-b10a-131cefed5b91@linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 20:08:24 +0200
From: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
To: Gergo Koteles <soyer@....hu>, Ike Panhc <ike.pan@...onical.com>,
 Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
 Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@...ux.intel.com>,
 Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>,
 Rob Herring <robh@...nel.org>,
 Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
 Conor Dooley <conor+dt@...nel.org>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-leds@...r.kernel.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: leds: add LED_FUNCTION_FNLOCK

On 02/04/2024 16:36, Gergo Koteles wrote:
> Hi Krzysztof,
> 
> On Tue, 2024-04-02 at 15:55 +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>>
>> Do we really need to define all these possible LED functions? Please
>> link to DTS user for this.
>>
> 
> I think for userspace it's easier to support an LED with a specified
> name than to use various sysfs attributes. LED devices are easy to find
> because they available are in the /sys/class/leds/ directory.
> So I think it's a good thing to define LED names somewhere.

You did not add anything for user-space, but DT bindings. We do not keep
here anything for user-space.

> 
> J Luke missed this LED from /sys/class/leds/, that's where the idea
> came from. The scrollock, numlock, capslock and kbd_backlight LEDs are
> already exported.
> 
> https://github.com/tomsom/yoga-linux/issues/58#issuecomment-2029926094


I see there sysfs, so what does it have to do with bindings?

Again, please link to in-tree or in-review DTS.

Best regards,
Krzysztof