Re: [PATCH v25 03/16] dt: bindings: lp50xx: Introduce the lp50xx family of RGB drivers

[Dan Murphy]

Jacek

On 6/1/20 4:34 AM, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> Hi Pavel and Dan,
>
> On 5/31/20 9:06 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > > > > +          There can only be one instance of the ti,led-bank
> > > > > +          property for each device node.  This is a required node 
> > > > > is the LED
> > > > > +          modules are to be backed.
> > > > I don't understand the second sentence. Pretty sure it is not valid
> > > > english.
> > >
> > >
> > > If I make these changes is this still viable for 5.8 or would you 
> > > then go
> > > into 5.9?
> >
> > It really depends if we get -rc8 or not, and if you'll need to do any
> > changes to C code or not...
>
> I think that we need to simmer such a big extension of the LED
> subsystem for a whole cycle in linux-next, especially taking into
> account addition of new sysfs interface, that is bit quirky.
>
> Effectively 5.8 seems to not have been viable since few weeks.
After thinking about this for a while I would actually think to have 
this in 5.9.

Either 5.7 or 5.8 will be the 2020 LTS and such a new interface would be 
best suited for intermediate stable releases that get EOL'd faster.

This way we don't have to back port bug fixes for 2 years.

Dan