From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>
Cc: "Marek Behún" <marek.behun@nic.cz>,
linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, "Dan Murphy" <dmurphy@ti.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds: add orange color
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2020 22:16:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200723201657.nb5dm2aqmjnizmpq@duo.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <30b1f173-c687-9fe2-92bd-fc53f776cb77@gmail.com>
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Hi!
> > > > Many network devices have LEDs with green and orange color, instead of
> > > > green and yellow.
> > >
> > > Is it likely that we see device having both yellow and orange LEDs?
> >
> > Why should we?
>
> This question actually refers to the below sentence...
>
> > > I'd simply lie and say those LEDs are yellow...
>
> So, why do you think we should strive to limit the number
> of color definitions?
Because there's infinitely many colors :-). And programmers are bad at
differentiating them. You can't really tell wavelength of light by
looking at it.
I mean.. yes, maybe we can add orange, pink, green-blue, violet,
... white at different temperatures ...
It will be rather long list.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-23 20:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-23 12:57 [PATCH] leds: add orange color Marek Behún
2020-07-23 13:40 ` Dan Murphy
2020-07-23 13:47 ` Marek Behún
2020-07-23 14:23 ` Dan Murphy
2020-07-23 19:39 ` Pavel Machek
2020-07-23 20:09 ` Jacek Anaszewski
2020-07-23 20:11 ` Jacek Anaszewski
2020-07-23 20:16 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2020-07-23 20:31 ` Jacek Anaszewski
2020-07-23 20:39 ` Pavel Machek
2020-07-23 20:54 ` Dan Murphy
2020-07-23 20:57 ` Jacek Anaszewski
2020-07-23 21:04 ` Pavel Machek
2020-07-23 21:17 ` Marek Behun
2020-07-23 21:24 ` Marek Behun
2020-07-23 21:38 ` Pavel Machek
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