Re: [PATCH v1 4/4] leds: no longer use unnamed gpios

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On 14-01-15 13:45, Linus Walleij wrote:
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 11:12 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 08, 2015 at 08:40:20AM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 2:45 AM, Olliver Schinagl <oliver@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
--- a/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static struct gpio_leds_priv *gpio_leds_create(struct
platform_device *pdev)
                 struct gpio_led led = {};
                 const char *state = NULL;
   -             led.gpiod = devm_get_gpiod_from_child(dev, NULL, child);
+               led.gpiod = devm_get_gpiod_from_child(dev, "led", child);
Would not this break existing boards using old bindings? You need to
handle both cases: if you can't located "led-gpios" then you will have to
try just "gpios".
Very true. I was rather even hoping we could update all bindings, I don't
mind going through the available dts files to fix them ... But need to know
that that's the proper way to go before doing the work ;)
That will not work. You cannot make changes that require a new dtb
with a new kernel. This would also break for the other way around
(i.e. a new dtb and old kernel).

You would have to search for both led-gpios and gpios. I'm not sure if
we can do that generically for all GPIOs. If you had a node with both
"blah-gpios" and "gpios", it would break. I would hope there are no
such cases like that. We also now have to consider how ACPI identifies
GPIOs and whether this makes sense.
I think only the driver itself can know about such "legacy" mappings and
make a decision.
Yeah leds-gpio.c will need to be patched to check for "led-gpios" first
and then fall back to "gpios" if not found.
yeah I've done the work, just need to double check it and resend a v2.

Linus, I assume you want the already applied patches omitted from v2?

Olliver

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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