Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] leds: add new LED_FUNCTION_PLAYER for player LEDs for game controllers.

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On Mon, 27 Sep 2021, Roderick Colenbrander wrote:

> > > > Player LEDs are commonly found on game controllers from Nintendo and Sony
> > > > to indicate a player ID across a number of LEDs. For example, "Player 2"
> > > > might be indicated as "-x--" on a device with 4 LEDs where "x" means on.
> > > >
> > > > This patch introduces LED_FUNCTION_PLAYER1-5 defines to properly indicate
> > > > player LEDs from the kernel. Until now there was no good standard, which
> > > > resulted in inconsistent behavior across xpad, hid-sony, hid-wiimote and
> > > > other drivers. Moving forward new drivers should use LED_FUNCTION_PLAYERx.
> > > >
> > > > Note: management of Player IDs is left to user space, though a kernel
> > > > driver may pick a default value.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Roderick Colenbrander <roderick.colenbrander@xxxxxxxx>
> > > > ---
> > > >  Documentation/leds/well-known-leds.txt | 14 ++++++++++++++
> > > >  include/dt-bindings/leds/common.h      |  7 +++++++
> > > >  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > Pavel, could you please eventually Ack this, so that I can take it
> > > together with the rest?
> >
> > I'm willing to take Documentation/leds/well-known-leds.txt part
> > through LED tree.
> >
> > I don't like the common.h change; either avoid the define or put it
> > into your local header.
> 
> If the LED_FUNCTION_PLAYER* defines don't belong in common with the
> other LED_FUNCTION* ones, where should it go? The hid-nintendo driver
> intends to use the same defines, so defining it local to each driver
> isn't right. Not sure if there is a great place in the input system
> either (you would then have to move scrolllock and all those other LED
> definitions too.)

Pavel, ping please? This has been lingering really for a bit too long.

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs




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