leds-gpio is crap and limited. you can just register one platform data at
kernel runtime since its identified by its object name "led-gpio" but the
kernel forbidds to register 2 platform datas with the same name
consider the ar71xx devices with qca988x wifi chipsets. they all have
already a led platform data registered
at boottime. a second can't be registered anymore so gpio_led is useless at
all for most developers on such platforms. its mainly used for early kernel
platform data initialisation for system leds.
If leds-gpio has limitations, please fix those, rather then
introducing duplicated code.
there is no duplicated code introduced and there is no solution for it.
consider that all wifi drivers with softled support
are going that way with registering a own led driver. see ath9k for
instance. gpio-led cannot be used for it and there is no way to
support multiple platform datas with the same name. its a kernel limitation
Sebastian
NAK.
Pavel
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