Re: [PATCH 1/2] x86: Remove led/gpio setup from pcengines platform driver

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 10/19/20 5:44 PM, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 14.10.20 10:41, Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> Keep the current LED/gpio setup code, but make executing it conditional
>> on the BIOS version and skip the LED/gpio setup when the new BIOS is
>> present to avoid having duplicate LED entries, etc. in that case.
>>
>> I guess this would still break userspace because if I understand things
>> correctly the new ACPI based setup uses different LED names ? That
>> seems unfortunate, but I guess that from the kernel pov we can just
>> blame the BIOS for this, and since we definitely do not want duplicate
>> LED entries for the same LED, this seems the least bad choice.
> 
> Sorry, but not fine. When a newer box is taken from storage into
> production (eg. replacement or new installation), application breaks.
> LED isn't the only problem, also affects buttons.
> 
> The whole reaons why I invested all the time for writing general
> purpose drivers (fch-gpio is separate from board driver) and bringing
> it to mainline was having clean and generic support for these boards,
> instead of having to carry around special patch queues forever and
> in near future just using stock distro kernel. I guess that's the
> main reason for very most mainlined drivers.

Ack and that is how things should be done.

> This will be defeated
> as soon as the whole thing becomes board/bios specific again.

I hear you, but if newer BIOS versions all of a sudden start
declaring their own stuff, then we need to come up with some
solution here...

Not sure what that solution should be though.

Regards,

Hans