Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] leds: Support OpenFirmware led bindings

From: Grant Likely <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:06:31 -0600

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:02:04PM +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 11:09:14AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> > I'd rather see the device tree provide 'hints' toward the expected usage
> > and if a platform needs something specific, then the platform specific
> > code should setup the trigger.
> > 
> > Regardless, any hints provided by the binding must be documented.  In
> > most cases the gpio-leds driver should be able to figure out which trigger
> > to bind without platform code intervention.
> 
> Maybe we can encode leds into devices themselves, via phandles?
> 
> E.g.
> 
> sata@101 {
> 	compatible = "fsl,sata";
> 	leds = <&red_led>;
> };

I like that idea!  That neatly solves the problem for many use cases.

> And then the OF GPIO LEDs driver could do something like:
> 
> char *ide_disk_trigger_compatibles[] = {
> 	"fsl,sata",
> 	"ide-generic",
> 	...
> };
> 
> for_each_node_with_leds_property(node, led_phandle) {
> 	if (if_ide_disk_compatible(node)) {
> 		struct gpio_led *led = phandle_to_led(led_phandle);
> 
> 		led->default_trigger = "ide-disk";
> 	}
> }

I'm not sure what would be best for implementation details, but
implementation details can easily be changed.

> 
> -- 
> Anton Vorontsov
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