Hello Jacek,
thanks for your feedback. See below.
Am Freitag, 11. September 2020, 23:26:43 CEST schrieb Jacek Anaszewski:
> On 9/11/20 5:40 PM, Alexander Dahl wrote:
> > The function 'led_compose_name()' is called in
> > 'led_classdev_register_ext(()' only and in its implementation it always
> > parses the fwnode passed with the init_data struct. If there's no
> > fwnode, EINVAL is returned and 'led_classdev_register_ext()' returns
> > early.
> >
> > If this is detected early the same fallback mechanism can be used , as
> > if init_data itself is NULL. This will allow drivers to pass fully
> > populated 'init_data' or sparse initialized 'init_data' with a NULL
> > fwnode in a more elegant way with only one function call.
> >
> > Fixes: bb4e9af0348d ("leds: core: Add support for composing LED class
> > device names") Suggested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Dahl <post@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > Notes:
> > v4:
> > * added this patch to series (Suggested-by: Pavel Machek)
> >
> > drivers/leds/led-class.c | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/leds/led-class.c b/drivers/leds/led-class.c
> > index cc3929f858b6..3da50c7ecfe7 100644
> > --- a/drivers/leds/led-class.c
> > +++ b/drivers/leds/led-class.c
> > @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ int led_classdev_register_ext(struct device *parent,
> >
> > const char *proposed_name = composed_name;
> > int ret;
> >
> > - if (init_data) {
> > + if (init_data && init_data->fwnode) {
>
> This does not cover the case when we don't have fwnode but we
> have init_data->default_label that led_compose_name() can make use of.
>
> > if (init_data->devname_mandatory && !init_data->devicename) {
> >
> > dev_err(parent, "Mandatory device name is missing");
> > return -EINVAL;
You're right, I missed that part in that if/else if construct in
led_compose_name() … I looked at the code for some more time now and could not
come up with an elegant change to the led-core or led-class. :-/
However I also had another look at leds-pwm and for me it seems that it is
used by fwnode (DT, ACPI, ??) based devices only. I could not find a single
user of leds-pwm as a platform driver, which is probably why 141f15c66d94
("leds: pwm: remove header") was possible?
I had a look at the history of the leds-pwm driver and when introduced in 2009
platform based board files where a thing, no dt, of, or fwnode yet, at least
for arm, right? Device tree support for leds-pwm was added in 2012 by Peter
Ujfalusi.
So if those code paths in leds-pwm are not used anymore, what about dropping
that platform support in leds-pwm driver? That would mean we always have
fwnode non-null and would not require a change in led-class at all?
Greets
Alex
