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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Cc: Geon Si Jeong <gshark.jeong@gmail.com>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
	Daniel Jeong <daniel.jeong@ti.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] leds: Add LED driver for lm3556 chip
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:09:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120331210913.GA19965@sirena.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120330185634.GB3384@pengutronix.de>

On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 08:56:34PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 03:38:28PM +0900, Geon Si Jeong wrote:

> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lm3556_write_bits);

> Seeing all these functions it may be worth converting to REGMAP.
> Then you already have regmap_update_bits and the like.

Plus cache and debug infrastructure if that's useful.

> > +static ssize_t lm3556_indicator_pattern_store(struct device *dev,
> > +					      struct device_attribute *devAttr,
> > +					      const char *buf, size_t size)

> > +static DEVICE_ATTR(pattern, 0644, NULL, lm3556_indicator_pattern_store);

> I don't know the LED subsytsem very well. Is it that specific to the chip so we
> need a DEVICE_ATTR? Or can this be generalized in the core?

Alternatively some documentation indicating what the userspace ABI is
might help someone identify if there's a relevant feature more easily :)
If it's periodic blinking then there's definitely a core feature for
that.

> > +	chip = kzalloc(sizeof(struct lm3556_chip_data), GFP_KERNEL);

devm_kzalloc()

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-31 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-30  6:38 [PATCH 0/1] leds: Add LED driver for lm3556 chip Geon Si Jeong
2012-03-30  6:38 ` [PATCH 1/1] " Geon Si Jeong
2012-03-30 18:26   ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-30 18:41   ` Andrew Morton
2012-04-01  3:37     ` Shuah Khan
2012-04-06 23:28       ` Andrew Morton
2012-03-30 18:56   ` Wolfram Sang
2012-03-31 21:09     ` Mark Brown [this message]
2012-04-03 22:09   ` Greg KH

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