From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@ti.com>
Cc: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>,
robh+dt@kernel.org, mark.rutland@arm.com,
jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] leds: lm3601x: Introduce the lm3601x LED driver
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 20:39:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180510183922.GA12846@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7832225b-115c-2316-025e-29929cd4f208@ti.com>
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Hi!
> >> Plus, removing the driver is not a command to disable the LED anyway.
> >
> > True but you don't want to leave any LEDs in the on state without a driver to support it.
> > This could burn out the LED or the board if left on on max brightness
>
> I disagree, we should not try to decide what the user wants here. We
> should only do what we are instructed to do, which for remove() is to
> cleanup what probe has done so the driver can be removed w/o leaking
> memory or device state.
We normally powerdown on rmmod. We should do that here, too.
Pavel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-10 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-10 12:27 [PATCH v4 1/2] dt: bindings: lm3601x: Introduce the lm3601x driver Dan Murphy
2018-05-10 12:27 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] leds: lm3601x: Introduce the lm3601x LED driver Dan Murphy
2018-05-10 13:44 ` Andrew F. Davis
2018-05-10 14:04 ` Dan Murphy
2018-05-10 14:31 ` Andrew F. Davis
2018-05-10 15:16 ` Dan Murphy
2018-05-10 18:39 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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