Re: [PATCH/RFC v2 1/5] leds: Use set_brightness_work for brightness_set ops that can sleep

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Wed Jul 01 2015 - 19:02:59 EST


> > As Andrew Lunn mentioned, he was also working on this issue and he did
> > the vast majority of work [1] needed to remove work queues from existing
> > drivers. Only new flags would have to be added.
>
> Excellent! This is what I was thinking as well.
>
> It think it'd be good if we could get the framework improvements in without
> having to change the existing drivers. They could be fixed later on; I
> wonder how testing could be arranged.

The work for the drivers is mostly brainless donkey work. So long as a
few people review each patch to catch dumb errors, the risk should be
quite low.

So ask people to test, but don't hold back drivers which nobody
tested, would be my suggestion.

Andrew
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