Re: [PATCH 1/2] Bluetooth: Add LED triggers for HCI frames tx and rx

[Guodong Xu]

On 13 July 2016 at 16:07, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Guodong,
>
>> Two LED triggers are defined: tx_led and rx_led. Upon frames
>> available in HCI core layer, for tx or for rx, the combined LED
>> can blink.
>>
>> Verified on HiKey, 96boards. It uses hi6220 SoC and TI WL1835 combo
>> chip.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Guodong Xu <guodong.xu@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h |  1 +
>> net/bluetooth/hci_core.c         |  3 +++
>> net/bluetooth/leds.c             | 15 +++++++++++++++
>> net/bluetooth/leds.h             |  2 ++
>> 4 files changed, 21 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h b/include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h
>> index dc71473..37b8dd9 100644
>> --- a/include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h
>> +++ b/include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h
>> @@ -398,6 +398,7 @@ struct hci_dev {
>>       bdaddr_t                rpa;
>>
>>       struct led_trigger      *power_led;
>> +     struct led_trigger      *tx_led, *rx_led;
>>
>>       int (*open)(struct hci_dev *hdev);
>>       int (*close)(struct hci_dev *hdev);
>> diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
>> index 45a9fc6..c6e1210 100644
>> --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
>> +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
>> @@ -3248,6 +3248,7 @@ int hci_recv_frame(struct hci_dev *hdev, struct sk_buff *skb)
>>       skb_queue_tail(&hdev->rx_q, skb);
>>       queue_work(hdev->workqueue, &hdev->rx_work);
>>
>> +     hci_leds_blink_oneshot(hdev->rx_led);
>>       return 0;
>> }
>> EXPORT_SYMBOL(hci_recv_frame);
>> @@ -3325,6 +3326,8 @@ static void hci_send_frame(struct hci_dev *hdev, struct sk_buff *skb)
>>               BT_ERR("%s sending frame failed (%d)", hdev->name, err);
>>               kfree_skb(skb);
>>       }
>> +
>> +     hci_leds_blink_oneshot(hdev->tx_led);
>> }
>
> so I am not convinced that this is the right way of doing TX/RX activity leds. This would have them purely based on HCI traffic and this would include control frames. I think that we want activity leds for actual radio activity. Meaning that when we have an active connection and ACL packets are exchanged or when we are scanning.
>

Thanks. I got your point. I will revise the code and submit again.

> Regards
>
> Marcel
>