Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] leds: pwm: Allow automatic labels for DT based devices

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Sep 09 2020 - 16:59:02 EST


Hi!

> >>> pwm_init_state(led_data->pwm, &led_data->pwmstate);
> >>>- ret = devm_led_classdev_register(dev, &led_data->cdev);
> >>>+ if (fwnode) {
> >>>+ init_data.fwnode = fwnode;
> >>>+ ret = devm_led_classdev_register_ext(dev, &led_data->cdev,
> >>>+ &init_data);
> >>>+ } else {
> >>>+ ret = devm_led_classdev_register(dev, &led_data->cdev);
> >>>+ }
> >>
> >>Can you always use _ext version, even with null fwnode?
> >
> >I did not try on real hardware, but from reading the code I would say
> >the following would happen: led_classdev_register_ext() calls
> >led_compose_name(parent, init_data, composed_name) which itself calls
> >led_parse_fwnode_props(dev, fwnode, &props); that returns early due to
> >fwnode==NULL without changing props, thus this stays as initialized
> >with {}, so led_compose_name() would return -EINVAL which would let
> >led_classdev_register_ext() fail, too.
> >
> >>If not, can you fix the core to accept that? Having that conditional
> >>in driver is ugly.
> >
> >It is ugly, although the approach is inspired by the leds-gpio driver.
> >I'll see if I can come up with a change to led-core, but I'm also open
> >for suggestions. ;-)
>
> devm_led_classdev_register() calls devm_led_classdev_register_ext()
> with NULL passed in place of init_data, so you could do something like
> below to achieve the same without touching LED core:
>
> struct led_init_data init_data_impl = { .fwnode = fwnode };
> struct led_init_data *init_data = NULL;
>
> if (fwnode)
> init_data = &init_data_impl;
>
> devm_led_classdev_register_ext(dev, &led_data->cdev, init_data);

Umm.. This is not too great, either. Maybe I'd really prefer the
change to the LED core.

> >fyi: Peter Ujfalusi answered and would give his Ack to the changed
> >dual license for the yaml file. You can expect that for v4.

Good :-).

Best regards,
pavel

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