Bjorn
On 10/9/19 6:25 PM, Bjorn Andersson wrote:
On Wed 09 Oct 13:44 PDT 2019, Dan Murphy wrote:
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.
Correct me if I've misunderstood something, but if I have a product
using e.g. lm3533 connected to an RGB LED then the correct way to
represent this towards userspace is to introduce the MC class in the
lm3533 LED driver, no?
Not necessarily. If the RGB LED is to be used as a RGB module and not
as independent LEDs.
For instance on smartphones if you had that RGB module connected to the
LM3533 and needed to mix colors to give different status indicators then
yes you would use the MC class. As the MC class presents and treats the
module as a single LED with individual color mixing control knobs.
If you were using each LED for a separate use cases then you would want
to present these as individual LEDs as done today.
The LP55xx driver can register to the LED class and/or the MC LED class
pending on the DT organization.
Understood.
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.
My concern with this is that being connected to a RGB LED is not a
property of the controller, but the system design and the proposed
implementation makes it a property of each controller.
I'm not saying that the proposed path is wrong, I'm saying that we have
83 files named leds-*.c in drivers/leds and this adaption needs to
happen on each one.
Agreed. I would expect the adoption to be done on a case by case basis
driven by usage and need.
And I'm not saying I expect you to do this.
Phew. I did not think you were. I will only convert drivers that I can
could 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
Yes
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 ;)
So if you have a system with e.g. 8 PWM channels on one PMIC and a
single PWM available on a different PMIC then you're saying that the
hardware guys would be silly to believe that they can drive 3 RGB LEDS
off this?
OK I must have removed my question to you on presenting a use case.
Grouping LEDs across multiple devices would an issue yes but we would
need a design or hardware to develop a good solution.
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.
If that is the agreed upon design then I'll continue to adapt my LED
drivers to the MC class.
For now this is the basic design. We are willing to take other
suggestions. We appreciate the feedback.
Dan