[PATCH v2] leds: implement OpenFirmare GPIO LED driver

Richard Purdie rpurdie at rpsys.net
Wed Jul 16 00:43:52 EST 2008


On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 18:23 +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > Spell out openfirmware :). I initially had no idea "of == openfirmware"
> > and I suspect others won't either...
> 
> This would be unusually long name, that is
> 
> $ find . -iname '*openfirmware*' | wc -l
> 0
> 
> And in contrast:
> 
> drivers/video/offb.c
> drivers/video/nvidia/nv_of.c
> drivers/usb/host/ohci-ppc-of.c
> drivers/usb/host/ehci-ppc-of.c
> drivers/serial/of_serial.c
> drivers/mtd/maps/physmap_of.c
> ...
> 
> So, I think we should stick with the "of" for consistency, while
> confused users may consult with Kconfig for disambiguation.

The other cases don't have a gpio driver to confuse this new driver
with. Lets spell it out please, the filesystems can handle the extra
letters :).

Cheers,

Richard




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