Re: [PATCH/RFC v10 02/19] Documentation: leds: Add description of LED Flash class extension

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On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Jacek Anaszewski
<j.anaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
> Thanks for the review.
>
> On 01/09/2015 06:40 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>>> The documentation being added contains overall description of the
>>> LED Flash Class and the related sysfs attributes.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxx>
>>
>>
>>> +In order to enable support for flash LEDs CONFIG_LEDS_CLASS_FLASH symbol
>>> +must be defined in the kernel config. A flash LED driver must register
>>> +in the LED subsystem with led_classdev_flash_register function to gain
>>> flash
>>> +related capabilities.
>>> +
>>> +There are flash LED devices which can control more than one LED and
>>> allow for
>>> +strobing the sub-leds synchronously. A LED will be strobed synchronously
>>> with
>>> +the one whose identifier is written to the flash_sync_strobe sysfs
>>> attribute.
>>> +The list of available sub-led identifiers can be read from the
>>
>>
>> sub-LED?
>
>
> Indeed, this naming will be more consistent.
>
>>> +       - flash_fault - bitmask of flash faults that may have occurred
>>> +                       possible flags are:
>>> +               * 0x01 - flash controller voltage to the flash LED has
>>> exceeded
>>> +                        the limit specific to the flash controller
>>> +               * 0x02 - the flash strobe was still on when the timeout
>>> set by
>>> +                        the user has expired; not all flash controllers
>>> may
>>> +                        set this in all such conditions
>>> +               * 0x04 - the flash controller has overheated
>>> +               * 0x08 - the short circuit protection of the flash
>>> controller
>>> +                        has been triggered
>>> +               * 0x10 - current in the LED power supply has exceeded the
>>> limit
>>> +                        specific to the flash controller
>>> +               * 0x20 - the flash controller has detected a short or
>>> open
>>> +                        circuit condition on the indicator LED
>>> +               * 0x40 - flash controller voltage to the flash LED has
>>> been
>>> +                        below the minimum limit specific to the flash
>>> +               * 0x80 - the input voltage of the flash controller is
>>> below
>>> +                        the limit under which strobing the flash at full
>>> +                        current will not be possible. The condition
>>> persists
>>> +                        until this flag is no longer set
>>> +               * 0x100 - the temperature of the LED has exceeded its
>>> allowed
>>> +                         upper limit
>>
>>
>> Did not everyone agree that text strings are preferable to bitmasks?
>>
>>
>> Pavel
>>
>
> I just forgot to update the flash_fault documentation. Will fix in the
> next version.
>
Please provide an updated version. I will merge them.

-Bryan
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