Re: [PATCH v3 10/15] leds: leds-gpio: Add ACPI probing support

Arnd Bergmann
2014-10-01T14:14:30Z

On Wednesday 01 October 2014 17:04:41 Mika Westerberg wrote:
>
> > On the question what to put into the name and type fields, that is
> > unrelated. The type is supposed to be for the 'device_type' property
> > in DT, which we should never rely on in a driver that supports both
> > APCI and DT. In Linux we only use that for "pci", "cpu" and "memory",
> > all of which have their own way of getting probed in ACPI.
> > The "name" is normally ignored in DT as well, except for backwards
> > compatibility with old bindings, but I would argue that you should not
> > just put "prp0001" in there. Either leave it empty like type, or use
> > the name of the device as it appears in the ACPI tables, such as "DEV0"
> > or "PWM".
>
> OK, I think it makes sense to leave them empty. I remember I tried that
> at some point but it didn't work without N and T fields. Is there some
> example what to put there in case of empty?
>
> Something like "of:N*T*Cgpio-leds" perhaps?

Sorry, don't know. If I read the code right, the type field in DT ends
up being "<NULL>" for any device that doesn't set the device_type
property, but that seems a bit silly and probably isn't worth copying.

Arnd