Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v25 03/16] dt: bindings: lp50xx: Introduce the lp50xx family of RGB drivers | From | Dan Murphy <> | Date | Thu, 4 Jun 2020 11:28:02 -0500 |
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Jacek
On 6/1/20 4:34 AM, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: > Hi Pavel and Dan, > > On 5/31/20 9:06 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: >> Hi! >> >>>>> + There can only be one instance of the ti,led-bank >>>>> + property for each device node. This is a required node >>>>> is the LED >>>>> + modules are to be backed. >>>> I don't understand the second sentence. Pretty sure it is not valid >>>> english. >>> >>> >>> If I make these changes is this still viable for 5.8 or would you >>> then go >>> into 5.9? >> >> It really depends if we get -rc8 or not, and if you'll need to do any >> changes to C code or not... > > I think that we need to simmer such a big extension of the LED > subsystem for a whole cycle in linux-next, especially taking into > account addition of new sysfs interface, that is bit quirky. > > Effectively 5.8 seems to not have been viable since few weeks. > After thinking about this for a while I would actually think to have this in 5.9.
Either 5.7 or 5.8 will be the 2020 LTS and such a new interface would be best suited for intermediate stable releases that get EOL'd faster.
This way we don't have to back port bug fixes for 2 years.
Dan
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