Re: [PATCH] leds: remove redundant SET_BRIGHTNESS_SYNC flag

From: Bryan Wu
Date: Thu May 14 2015 - 16:50:51 EST


On Thu, May 14, 2015 at 2:11 AM, Jacek Anaszewski
<j.anaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I personally can't find any strong argument against this optimization.
> I added both flags on Bryan's request while implementing LED Flash class
> extension. I can see a few occurrences in the include/linux directory
> where both SYNC and ASYNC flags are implemented. The argument in favour
> could be the fact that the flags influence the core functionality of
> the subsystem.
>
> Bryan, could you express your opinion, please?
>

Please keep this flag and although it's redundant at this point I
think it's still make code more clear and easy to understand.

Thanks,
-Bryan

>
> On 05/13/2015 05:41 PM, Stas Sergeev wrote:
>>
>>
>> There is a complimentary flag called SET_BRIGHTNESS_ASYNC.
>> Having both is redundant. This patch removes the unneeded flag
>> without any functionality change.
>>
>> CC: Bryan Wu <cooloney@xxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: linux-leds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> CC: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Stas Sergeev <stsp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> drivers/leds/led-class-flash.c | 1 -
>> drivers/leds/led-core.c | 4 +---
>> include/linux/leds.h | 2 +-
>> 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/leds/led-class-flash.c
>> b/drivers/leds/led-class-flash.c
>> index 3b25734..bb67364 100644
>> --- a/drivers/leds/led-class-flash.c
>> +++ b/drivers/leds/led-class-flash.c
>> @@ -318,7 +318,6 @@ int led_classdev_flash_register(struct device *parent,
>>
>> /* Setting a torch brightness needs to have immediate effect */
>> led_cdev->flags &= ~SET_BRIGHTNESS_ASYNC;
>> - led_cdev->flags |= SET_BRIGHTNESS_SYNC;
>>
>> return 0;
>> }
>> diff --git a/drivers/leds/led-core.c b/drivers/leds/led-core.c
>> index 9886dac..356e851 100644
>> --- a/drivers/leds/led-core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/leds/led-core.c
>> @@ -129,10 +129,8 @@ void led_set_brightness(struct led_classdev
>> *led_cdev,
>> if (led_cdev->flags & SET_BRIGHTNESS_ASYNC) {
>> led_set_brightness_async(led_cdev, brightness);
>> return;
>> - } else if (led_cdev->flags & SET_BRIGHTNESS_SYNC)
>> + } else
>> ret = led_set_brightness_sync(led_cdev, brightness);
>> - else
>> - ret = -EINVAL;
>>
>> if (ret < 0)
>> dev_dbg(led_cdev->dev, "Setting LED brightness failed
>> (%d)\n",
>> diff --git a/include/linux/leds.h b/include/linux/leds.h
>> index 9a2b000..c9e6e5d 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/leds.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/leds.h
>> @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ struct led_classdev {
>> #define LED_BLINK_INVERT (1 << 19)
>> #define LED_SYSFS_DISABLE (1 << 20)
>> #define SET_BRIGHTNESS_ASYNC (1 << 21)
>> -#define SET_BRIGHTNESS_SYNC (1 << 22)
>> +/* bit 22 unused, take it */
>> #define LED_DEV_CAP_FLASH (1 << 23)
>>
>> /* Set LED brightness level */
>>
>
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Jacek Anaszewski
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