Re: [PATCH v4 04/11] leds: led-class: Add generic [devm_]led_get()

[Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 1/19/23 15:54, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 4:16 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 1/19/23 15:04, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 3:01 PM Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
>>>> +/*
>>>> + * This is used to tell led_get() device which led_classdev to return for
>>>> + * a specific consumer device-name, function pair on non devicetree platforms.
>>>> + * Note all strings must be set.
>>>> + */
>>>> +struct led_lookup_data {
>>>> +       struct list_head list;
>>>> +       const char *led_name;
>>>> +       const char *consumer_dev_name;
>>>> +       const char *consumer_function;
>>>> +};
>>>
>>> I'm wondering if it would be better to have something like
>>>
>>> struct led_function_map {
>>>        const char *name;
>>>        const char *function;
>>> };
>>>
>>> struct led_lookup_data {
>>>        struct list_head list;
>>>        const char *dev_name;
>>>        const struct led_function_map map[];
>>> };
>>
>> Thank you for the review.
>>
>> Since led_lookup_data now is variable sized, AFAIK this means that
>> the led_lookup_data now can no longer be embedded in another struct and
>> instead it must always be dynamically allocated, including adding error
>> checking + rollback for said allocation.
> 
> I'm not sure what you are talking about here. GPIO lookup table
> defined in the same way and doesn't strictly require heap allocation.
> For the embedding into another structure, it can be as the last entry AFAIU.

That will probably work, but only if there is only 1 variable sized
struct which you want to embed.

Also note that in the current use-case the struct is embedded in
a sub-struct of the main driver_data struct, so then not only
would this need to be the last member of the sub-struct, but
the sub-struct itself would need to be the last member of
the main driver_data struct.

Variable sized structs can be nice sometimes, but in cases where
we may want to embed them they are not always ideal.

>> If you look at the only current consumer of this:
>>
>> [PATCH v4 09/11] platform/x86: int3472/discrete: Create a LED class device for the privacy LED
>>
>> then the code there would become more complicated.
> 
>>> as you may have more than one LED per the device and it would be a
>>> more compressed list in this case. I'm basically referring to the GPIO
>>> lookup table.
>>
>> Right, but having more then 1 GPIO per device is quite common while
>> I expect having more then 1 (or maybe 2) LEDs per device to be rare while
>> at the same time the suggested change makes things slightly more
>> complicated for consumers of the API which know before hand how much
>> lookup entries they will need (typically 1).
>>
>> So all in all I believe staying with the current implementation is better
>> but if there is a strong preference to switch to the structure you suggest
>> then I have no objection against that.
> 
> I have no strong opinion, I just want to have fewer variants of the
> lookup tables.
> Anyway, reset framework has something similar to yours.

Right, so there is precedent for this variant too.

> Question: can you
> rename fields to be something like dev_id, con_id, etc as it's done in the most
> of the lookup data types?

I see that the gpio and reset lookups indeed both use dev_id and con_id
I will change the LED lookups to use this to for version 5 of this
patch-set.

Regards,

Hans