Re: [PATCH 1/1] leds: Add LED driver for lm3556 chip

From: Mark Brown
Date: Sat Mar 31 2012 - 17:10:04 EST


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()
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