Re: 2.6.25 intended change: smc:kbd_backlight vs.smc::kbd_backlight ?

[Soeren Sonnenburg]

On Wed, 2008-04-02 at 20:58 +0200, Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am wondering whether the change from 
> 
> /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc:kbd_backlight  (2.6.24) 
> /sys/devices/platform/applesmc.768/leds/smc::kbd_backlight (2.6.25)
> 
> is intentional?
> 
> I recognized that it breaks current userspace applications changing the
> keyboard background leds like pommed...

OK it looks like commit 6c152beefbf90579d21afc4f7e075b1f801f9a75 from
Richard Purdie, 'leds: Standardise LED naming scheme' introduced this
change.

Why do we need '::' instead of a single ':' (that would not have broken
things)?

Also sometimes only a single ':' seperator is used like in
corgi:green:mail but e.g. not in clevo::mail ?!

Soeren
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