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SubjectRe: [PATCH v25 03/16] dt: bindings: lp50xx: Introduce the lp50xx family of RGB drivers
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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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