Re: [PATCH v3] leds: is31fl319x: modernize registration

On Thu, 6 Aug 2026 11:45:25 +0100
Lee Jones <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Aug 2026, Andreas Kemnade wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:55:14 +0000
> > [email protected] wrote:
> >   
> > > > leds: is31fl319x: modernize registration    
> > > 
> > > [Severity: Low]
> > > This isn't a bug, but should the description after the subsystem prefix be
> > > capitalized? The LED subsystem guidelines recommend formatting commit messages
> > > as "leds: <Driver>: <Capitalized description>".  
> > 
> > 
> > ~/linux$ grep -R 'leds: <Driver>: <Capitalized description>"' Documentation/
> > ~/linux$ ls Documentation/leds/
> > index.rst                  leds-lp5521.rst      leds-sc27xx.rst
> > leds-blinkm.rst            leds-lp5523.rst      leds-st1202.rst
> > leds-cht-wcove.rst         leds-lp5562.rst      ledtrig-oneshot.rst
> > leds-class-flash.rst       leds-lp55xx.rst      ledtrig-transient.rst
> > leds-class-multicolor.rst  leds-lp5812.rst      ledtrig-usbport.rst
> > leds-class.rst             leds-mlxcpld.rst     uleds.rst
> > leds-el15203000.rst        leds-mt6370-rgb.rst  well-known-leds.txt
> > leds-lm3556.rst            leds-qcom-lpg.rst
> > leds-lp3944.rst            leds-s2m-rgb.rst
> > 
> > nothing look like special guidelines for the system. I do not want to
> > see such comments without a reference.
> > Also MAINTAINERS does not show any additional policy for the LED subsystem.  
> 
> `git log --oneline -- <subsystem>` is your friend.
> 
That is looking at common practice, not guidelines, which is of course
often a good idea.

So Sahiko is hallucinating about non-existant guidelines which
cannot be referenced of course. Well, at least it gives quite an amount of
useful hintse.

Regards,
Andreas