Hi
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 9:08 PM, Samuel Thibault
<samuel.thiba...@ens-lyon.org> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> David Herrmann, le Mon 15 Jul 2013 17:03:08 +0200, a écrit :
>> > @@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
>> > bool "Virtual terminal" if EXPERT
>> > depends on !S390 && !UML
>> > select INPUT
>> > + select NEW_LEDS
>> > + select LEDS_CLASS
>> > + select LEDS_TRIGGERS
>> > + select INPUT_LEDS
>>
>> This looks odd. Any dependency changes in the input-layer will break
>> this. But I guess that's what we get for a non-recursive "select". Hmm
>
> Yes, that's the issue.
>
>> I also think that the macros don't really simplify this. So:
>> [VC_SHIFTLOCK] = { .name = "shiftlock", .activate =
>> kbd_lockstate_trigger_activate },
>> isn't much longer than:
>> DEFINE_LOCKSTATE_TRIGGER(VC_SHIFTLOCK, "shiftlock"),
>
> That makes it more than 80 columns, at least.
Indeed, I missed that.
>> > + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(ledtrig_ledstate); i++)
>> > + led_trigger_register(&ledtrig_ledstate[i]);
>> > + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(ledtrig_lockstate); i++)
>> > + led_trigger_register(&ledtrig_lockstate[i]);
>> > +
>>
>> This returns "int", are you sure no error-handling is needed?
>
> ATM only registering the same name several times can happen, and
> shouldn't ever happen. But better warn than be sorry, indeed.
Yepp, it also avoids ignoring any future errors that we might
introduce in led_trigger_register().
>> > + * Keyboard LEDs are propagated by default like the following example:
>> > + *
>> > + * VT keyboard numlock trigger
>> > + * -> vt::numl VT LED
>> > + * -> vt-numl VT trigger
>>
>> Nitpick: What's the reason for the syntax difference? "vt-numl" vs.
>> "vt::numl"
>
> vt::numl is a clear LED classification convention. For triggers, I don't
> see a clear convention, but at least I have never seen "::", only "-".
> That makes me realize that for keyboard triggers I haven't introduced a
> prefix, and only used "scrollock", "numlock", etc. Perhaps
> "kbd-scrollock" etc. or (in phase with LEDs), "kbd::scrollock" etc.?
I understand. Due to lack of insight, I cannot really comment on that,
sorry. Just wanted to go sure you're aware of that. So feel free to
pick any of them.
Thanks
David
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