Re: [PATCH v2 6/7] platform: x86: Add intel_skl_int3472 driver

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 06:36:31PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 11:33:58AM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:11:40AM +0000, Daniel Scally wrote:
> > > On 18/01/2021 21:19, Daniel Scally wrote:

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> > See my previous reply. TL;DR: you have to modify clk-gpio.c to export couple of
> > methods to be able to use it as a library.
> 
> That seems really overkill given the very simple implementation of the
> clock provided here.

Less code in the end is called an overkill? Hmm...
I think since we in Linux it's better to utilize what it provides. Do you want
me to prepare a patch to show that there is no overkill at all?

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> > > (also, Laurent, if we did it this way we wouldn't be able to also handle
> > > the led-indicator GPIO here without some fairly major rework)
> > 
> > LED indicators are done as LED class devices (see plenty of examples in PDx86
> > drivers: drivers/platform/x86/)
> 
> How do you expose the link between the sensor and its indicator LED to
> userspace ? Isn't it better to handle it in the kernel to avoid rogue
> userspace turning the camera on without notifying the user ?

I didn't get this. It's completely a LED handling driver business. We may
expose it to user space or not, but it's orthogonal to the usage of LED class
IIUC. Am I mistaken here?

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko