Hi!

> Maybe you explain the idea behind choosing only from that namespace? My
> guess would be high-level software being able to toggle leds totally
> indep of the device it runs on. Such software would have to do some
> really nasty directory listing, name parsing, dealing with multiple
> hits. Does such generic software already exist, maybe that would help
> me understand my "mapping problems" ?

It does not, but we want to have one... or at least not have current situation.

> The current class encodes, color, function and name into "name".
> 
> Maybe i am all wrong and should go for
> 
> {1 << 14, "simatic-ipc-error:red:" LED_FUNCTION_STATUS }
> {1 << 15, "simatic-ipc-run-stop:green:" LED_FUNCTION_STATUS}
> {...    , "simatic-ipc-hdd0:red:" LED_FUNCTION_DISK }
> {...    , "simatic-ipc-hdd1:red:" LED_FUNCTION_DISK }

Can you explain in plain english what the leds should do?

We don't want to have simatic-ipc- prefix there. tpacpi was really bad
example.

Best regards,
								Pavel

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