Re: [PATCH RFC] leds: Add support for per-LED device triggers

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Jul 04 2020 - 16:12:32 EST


Hi!

> > > Add support for registering per-LED device trigger.
> > >
> > > Names of private triggers need to be globally unique, but may clash
> > > with other private triggers. This is enforced during trigger
> >
> > Globally unique name is going to be a problem, no? If you have two
> > keyboards with automatical backlight support...
>
> Only globally unique in a sense that they must not clash with non
> per-LED trigger names. So you can have two keyboards with 'self-working'
> trigger on their LED devices in sysfs.
>
> This requirement only comes from the fact that this shares the
> same sysfs configuration interface as regular non-private triggers.

Ok. That looks sane.

And if you tweak code a bit (don't compare pointers to struct led;
have struct hw_trigger_group, and compare pointers to that), you
should be able to fix the uglyness Marek mentioned without major changes.

Best regards,
Pavel
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