Hi! > > > > Yeah, well, we not let the cros_kbd_led_backlight.c use chromeos:: in > > > > the first place. But it happened. We want all backlights for the > > > > system keyboard to use common name, and "chromeos" is not really > > > > suitable for that. "platform" is. > > > > > > Pavel, who exactly wants this and why? Looking at today's -next I see: > > > > > > dtor@dtor-ws:~/kernel/linux-next ((next-20190404))$ git grep > > > "::kbd_backlight" | wc -l > > > 18 > > > dtor@dtor-ws:~/kernel/linux-next ((next-20190404))$ git grep > > > "platform::kbd_backlight" | wc -l > > > 0 > > > > > > so there isn't a single instance of "platform::kbd_backlight" and we > > > definitely not changing existing names. > > > > Yeah, we made mistakes in the past. We _don't_ want userspace to have > > ever growing list of names for userspace to follow. > > > > Backlight of internal keyboard is pretty common concept and there > > should be one name for it. > > It is the *function* that is interesting to userspace, not full name, > and we have proper standardization there. Well, if full name is not interesting, as you argue, why do we have this discussion? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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