[PATCH v4 00/18] Introduce a led trigger for CPU activity and consolidate LED driver in ARM

Bryan Wu bryan.wu at canonical.com
Mon Aug 29 09:18:29 EDT 2011


On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Bryan Wu <bryan.wu at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> Based on Linus Walleij's ARM LED consolidation work, this patchset introduce a
>> new generic led trigger for CPU not only for ARM but also for others.
>
> I think Russell was pretty clear that he saw problems inside the "new LEDs"
> subsystem (drivers/leds) that need be fixed before we migrate this support
> to use the LED class devices.
>
> Can you see if you can address his comment on the earlier realview patch,
> i.e. this:
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-arm-kernel&m=131237280009775&w=2
>

Yeah, I replied that email with a patch to select LEDS_CLASS when
CONFIG_NEW_LEDS=y.

But you know, there is no comments about that.

> rpurdie: your comments on the state of the LEDs class?
>
> If I get time I will attempt to fix it, no clue when that will be though.
>

Thanks a lot, I think our ledtrig-cpu patches are quite good for
merging, although Russell has some concern about leds subsystem.

Regards,
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