Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] igc: Export LEDs

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Hi!

> > > Now the (linked) LED devices are under /sys/class/net/<ifname>, but still
> > > the primary LED devices are under /sys/class/leds and their names have
> > > to be unique therefore. The LED subsystem takes care of unique names,
> > > but in case of a second network interface the LED device name suddenly
> > > would be led0_1 (IIRC). So the names wouldn't be predictable, and I think
> > > that's not what we want.
> > 
> > We need input from the LED maintainers, but do we actually need the
> > symbolic links in /sys/class/leds/? For this specific use case, not
> > generally. Allow an LED to opt out of the /sys/class/leds symlink.
> > 
> > If we could drop those, we can relax the naming requirements so that
> > the names is unique to a parent device, not globally unique.
> 
> Well, I believe we already negotiated acceptable naming with
> Marek... Is it unsuitable for some reason?

Sorry, hit send too soon.. Marek is now in cc list.

								Pavel
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