Re: [PATCH v12] ath10k: add LED and GPIO controlling support for various chipsets

[Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>]

Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:

>> >>>ath10k_leds.gpio = ar->hw_params.led_pin;
>> >>>gpio_led_register_device(0, &ath10k_leds);
>> >>
>> >>the problem are other architectures which have already registered gpio_led
>> >>at system start like ar71xx
>> >>you cannot register a second one. so a independend led driver is a
>> >>requirement for direct control
>> >
>> >If the limitation indeed exists, please fix the limitation rather than
>> >working around it in each and every driver.
>> see ath9k. its exact the same implementation.
>
> Ok, so one more driver to fix.
>
>> in addition my variant does also work without gpiolib support. so it
>> can be used even if the kernel is configured without gpio support.
>> and not to forget, using a own led driver is more ligthweight from
>> the call path for each led on / off event which is important for low
>> performance embedded devices
>
> We are not going to copy&paste code because such code works without
> libraries, and we are not going to copy&paste code because that uses
> less cache during calls. Sorry.
>
> NAK. Please fix your patch. 

To me it's not that black and white, sometimes copying code is simpler
than trying to bring up complicated or restricting frameworks (talking
in general here).

I haven't been able to review this patch in detail yet but from a quick
look most of the code is about standard ath10k infrastructure code. How
many lines of code would using leds-gpio save?

-- 
Kalle Valo