Re: "advanced" LED controllers

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On Wed 2015-02-25 18:06:07, Alexandre Courbot wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > CC linux-gpio, as this looks like the LED equivalent of bulk gpio?
> 
> Indeed. The LED core could implement something similar to
> gpiod_set_array() to allow several LEDs to be set in one call. If the
> controller supports it, it would then set all the LEDs at once,
> otherwise the core would apply the values serially.
> 
> In leds-gpio.c, this multiple LED setting could be implemented by a
> single call to gpiod_set_array() and the right thing would happen.

Actually, there are two issues: some controlles can set all LEDs at
once, and some can program pwm level smoothly using given program (and
handle multiple leds in the process).

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