Re: [net-next PATCH v3 03/13] Documentation: leds: leds-class: Document new Hardware driven LEDs APIs

From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Mon May 29 2023 - 10:12:51 EST


Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> + - hw_control_get_device:
>> + return the device associated with the LED driver in
>> + hw control. A trigger might use this to match the
>> + returned device from this function with a configured
>> + device for the trigger as the source for blinking
>> + events and correctly enable hw control.
>> + (example a netdev trigger configured to blink for a
>> + particular dev match the returned dev from get_device
>> + to set hw control)
>> +
>> + Return a device or NULL if nothing is currently attached.
> Returns a device name?

The return type of this function is struct device * - how would you
expect it to return a name?

jon