Hi!

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> > My other concerns with this patch are that it exports incorrect
> > information on spitz (which I had warned about and I will get bug
> > reports about) and that "description" is not really a suitable name for
> > a sysfs attribute, "function" might give a better idea of what it
> > represents to developers.
> > 
> > I still question whether either colour or function properties are
> > actually particularly useful to userspace other than for naming purposes
> > which is why they were part of the device name.
> > 
> > Anyhow, I'm trying not to say too much more as it will just go in
> > circles. I'll await a reply from Greg.
> 
> Hm, I thought I made my opinion pretty clear in the beginning.
> 
> Why not just do a simple:
> 	led01
> 	led02
> 	led03
> 	...
> 
> and so on?
> 
> And use the 'name' field to put the name of your device (disk,
> bluetooth, etc.)  This is the way all other busses and devices work, and
> I don't think that LEDs are anything more "special" than anything else
> in the kernel, right?

Can we keep the original naming? spitz:disk is as unique as led02, and
it is _way_ easier to use.

Come on, I want to use the led subsystem from the scripts... 
									Pavel
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