Re: [PATCH v11 04/16] leds: multicolor: Introduce a multicolor class definition

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Bjorn

On 10/9/19 3:11 PM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 1:49 PM Dan Murphy <dmurphy@xxxxxx> wrote:
Introduce a multicolor class that groups colored LEDs
within a LED node.

The multi color class groups monochrome LEDs and allows controlling two
aspects of the final combined color: hue and lightness. The former is
controlled via <color>_intensity files and the latter is controlled
via brightness file.

Thanks for making progress on this, it's been the one outstanding
question mark for the long overdue respin of the Qualcomm LPG driver.

But while it works for the LPG, in that it has outputs named "RGB" I
have boards with "generic" LED drivers that are connected to RGB LEDs.
So per your proposed solution we would need to add the additional

You don't have to add the MC class to those drivers.  This is an optional framework but if you wanted to use the framework for specific devices then yes you would need to add that support. This is why I did the LP55xx patches to demonstrate the feasibility since the LP50xx has the MC class intelligence already.

The LP55xx driver can register to the LED class and/or the MC LED class pending on the DT organization.

I don't plan on going through all of TI's RGB drivers and retrofitting them to the MC class.  I do have to update the GPIO LED driver to use the class but that work is still pending.

I may also update the Motorola PCAP driver as well since I have a Droid4 to test.

mc_class handling to every single LED driver that might be used to
sink current into an RGB LED.

I also don't see anything preventing hardware designers from feeding
single RGB LEDs from multiple different LED controllers, something the
current proposal would prohibit.

What do you mean by a single RGB LED? Are you referring to a RGB module?

http://wiki.sunfounder.cc/index.php?title=RGB_LED_Module

There is no prevention for HW designers to put a driver on each LED output but I am not sure why they would incur

the additional BOM cost seems quite silly unless you have an unlimited budget ;)

If they did design the system that way then the SW would need to revert back to the standard LED class as it is done today.

Dan





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