[PATCH v2] leds: implement OpenFirmare GPIO LED driver

Richard Purdie rpurdie at rpsys.net
Tue Jul 15 23:31:27 EST 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 17:24 +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 01:54:30PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > I don't have any issue with the driver itself, just the name which is
> > going to confuse people no end.
> > 
> > Can we come up with a better name for this driver please?
[...]
> > "openfirmware-led"?
> 
> And this would be wrong, since this driver is for GPIO LEDs only, not
> for all LEDs that OF can describe. In future there could be OF PWM LEDs
> or something like this.

Ok, will these be a separate driver or combined into the gpio driver?

> > I'm mainly concerned with the more user visible bits like the name of
> > the .c file, the wording of the Kconfig option and the module
> > description. We need to play down the GPIO bit and play up the
> > openfirmware bindings bit.
> 
> Hm... file name is leds-of-gpio.c, how could I play up the "of" bit more
> than this? ;-)

Spell out openfirmware :). I initially had no idea "of == openfirmware"
and I suspect others won't either...

> > As an example the Kconfig says "LED Support for GPIO connected LEDs"
> > which its not, the bit about openfirmware bindings is in brackets and
> > hence looks incidental.
> 
> As for Kconfig, yeah.. probably I can improve the wording. How about
> "OpenFirmware bindings for GPIO connected LEDs"? Would that work?

Yes, thats better. I think basically we need to spell out OF a bit more.
Its probably obvious to powerpc people but not everyone else.

Cheers,

Richard






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