netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH v6 10/11] net: dsa: qca8k: add LEDs support

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Date:   Thu, 5 May 2022 16:24:50 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
Cc:     Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk+dt@...nel.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v6 10/11] net: dsa: qca8k: add LEDs support

On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 03:33:07PM +0200, Ansuel Smith wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 03:55:26AM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > +		ret = fwnode_property_read_string(led, "default-state", &state);
> > 
> > You should probably use led_default_state led_init_default_state_get()
> > 
> >     Andrew
> 
> Oh, didn't know it was a thing, is this new? Anyway thanks.

No idea. But my thinking was, you cannot be the first to implement the
binding, there probably exists some helpers somewhere...

General rule of thumb: Assume somebody has already been there and done
it, you just need to find it and reuse it.

    Andrew