On Thu, 2016-05-19 at 09:16 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > In the original situation, without these patches, userspace has to > > have a list of all LEDs that are supposed to indicate airplane > > mode. > Well, that's situation for many LEDs. That doesn't make it a *good* situation though. > > With this patch only (without patch 2/3), userspace can look up the > > default trigger, but then has to change it, causing the necessary > > information to be lost immediately when you actually use it - that > > also seems like a bad idea. > We should not store "what kind of led this is" in a trigger. That's pretty much what I'm arguing though. > LED > subsystem seems to use suffix of LED name to do that. So if we > standartize, lets say "::rfkill" suffix for this, it should work and > follow existing practice. [...] > There is one -- suffix in the LED name. I don't really think that's a good way, and it doesn't seem to be used universally, but I suppose it's good enough. João, that means you should send a patch to add the ::rfkill suffix. And Pavel should send a patch to document the practice and the existing suffixes with their meaning ;-) johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
