Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] leds-pca9633: Add support for PCA9634

[Bryan Wu]

On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Peter Meerwald
<p.meerwald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>> > Add support for PCA9634 chip, which belongs to the same family as the
>> > 9633 but with support for 8 outputs instead of 4.
>
>> Basically I like this method to add a new chip supporting. Please find
>> my comments below.
>
> me too :)
>
>> What about just rename the whole file to leds-pca963x.c. And rename
>> some pca9633 to pca963x in the driver.
>
> there are other, similar I2C LED driver chips which might be
> handled with the current pca9633 driver, e.g. the pca9685 (which is
> supported under pwm/ by the way)
>
> people have argued that the numbering scheme of chips is hard to
> predict; hence, the driver name should be determined by the first
> device supported to avoid subsequent renaming -- but I have no strong
> feelings about this
>

Giving a more generic and meaningful name of this driver should be a
easier for people to understand. So if pca9685 is coming, we can use
leds-pca96xx.c and pca96xx for this pca96xx chip family, as long as
they can share this driver code.

Please take a look at Milo did in leds-lp55xx drivers.

Thanks a lot,
-Bryan
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