Re: [PATCH] leds: lm3697: Fix out-of-bound access

[Dan Murphy]

Marek

On 10/6/20 9:41 AM, Marek Behun wrote:
> Adding Rob to Cc, Rob, could we have your opinion on this? Mine is below.
>
> Dan, I looked at the datasheet, I understand this.
>
> Nonetheless, device tree should describe how devices are connected to
> each other. The chip has 3 pins for 3 LED strings.
>
> If this controller should be able to support 3 LED strings via 3
> outputs, the device tree binding nodes should, in my opinion, describe
> each pin connected string. The nodes should maybe even be called
> 'led-string@N' where N is from [0, 1, 2].
>
> The fact that the device is bank controlled and there are only two
> banks (and it is configurable by which bank each LED string is
> controlled) is more relevant to the driver, not as much to device tree
> binding.
>
> But yes, I do realize that if we had 3 child nodes, and the driver
> created 3 LEDs, then changing brithrness on one of the 3 LEDs would
> change brightness on at least another one, which we do not want.
>
> Maybe this driver could parse these 3 `led-string` nodes, each having
> defined bank via `led-sources`, and then register LED classdevs for
> each bank that is mentioned. This way the device tree would be more
> correct, IMO, and the driver would not have the problem mentioned in
> the paragraph above.

Unfortunately we cannot and should not change the ABI now.

Using the led-sources as the bank indicator does not conform to the 
definition of the description of the led-sources in the yaml.

The preference was to use the led-sources to define the LED out to the bank.

Here is the conversation on how the driver got to where it is.

https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/972337/

Dan