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From: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tbogendoerfer@suse.de>
To: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] leds: add SGI IP30 led support
Date: Sat, 22 Feb 2020 11:05:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200222110545.fc96683543cb0dd538e5be82@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49524a9a-910a-9f1a-bc10-d78080a16d46@gmail.com>

On Fri, 21 Feb 2020 21:31:04 +0100
Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> wrote:


> > +	if (num == 0)
> > +		data->cdev.name = "white:indicator";
> > +	else
> > +		data->cdev.name = "red:indicator";
> 
> Why indicator? Whereas it sounds quite generic it is used in the LED
> subsystem specifically for naming indicator LEDs, that are often
> found on flash LED controllers and are designed to indicate camera
> sensor activity.

ok, ic.

> If it is on the front panel of SGI Octane workstations then its
> function is perhaps well known?

the red LED is clearly a fault led. The white LED will be switch on
after system diagnostic was successfull. Nothing from common.h really
fits that, maybe status ?

Thomas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-02-22 10:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-21 11:11 Thomas Bogendoerfer
2020-02-21 20:31 ` Jacek Anaszewski
2020-02-22 10:05   ` Thomas Bogendoerfer [this message]
2020-02-22 16:36     ` Jacek Anaszewski

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