[PATCH v3] leds: provide helper to register "leds-gpio" devices

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Mon May 9 04:00:02 EDT 2011


Hello Richard,

On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 10:03:22PM +0100, Richard Purdie wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 08:23 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:48:48PM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:35:57PM +0200, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> > > > +obj-y					+= led-register.o
> > > 
> > > Why not obj-$(CONFIG_LED_REGISTER_GPIO) += led-register.o
> > > 
> > > rather than wrapping the code of led-register.c with a #ifdef for the
> > > same symbol?
> > I thought that the registration for other led-devices could go into that
> > file, too. That's why I choosed the name led-register and not
> > leds-gpio-register.c. Agreed? I don't insist on that.
> 
> I'm not sure we want/need to put other registration functions in this
> file? obj-$(CONFIG_LED_REGISTER_GPIO) probably therefore makes sense
> until some other registration need arises.
OK, then I will name the file leds-gpio-register.c. This can be renamed
to led-register.c when/if other registrations follow.

> Regardless, I'm happier with this patch than the previous ones. If you
> change it to use obj-$(CONFIG_LED_REGISTER_GPIO), 
> 
> Acked-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org>
Who will take the patch then? Andrew? Or is there someone else I need to
Cc?

Thanks
Uwe

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