Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] leds: leds-qti-rgb: Add LED driver for QTI TRI_LED module

From: Jacek Anaszewski
Date: Tue Jun 06 2017 - 16:08:09 EST


Hi,

On 06/05/2017 11:16 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Generally I came to a conclusion that it will be best to register
>> additional LED RGB class device in an addition to three LED class
>> devices representing each color. In order to avoid hard to solve
>> locking problems I propose to allow for simultaneous access to LED
>> class devices and LED RGB class device gathering them.
>>
>> All in all, currently we also don't give an exclusive access to
>> a particular LED class device, which always can lead to overwriting
>> current brightness by another process. These issues must be arbitrated
>> by user space.
>>
>> I propose that LED RGB class device exposed following files:
>>
>> - red_brightness
>> - green_brightness
>> - blue_brightness
>> - latch_color
>
> Actually, I'd just do single file, "rgb_brightness" with 3
> values. Overhead of writing 3 values is pretty much 0.

You've always been strongly in favor of one-value-per-file
sysfs rule of thumb, but I'm OK with this approach as well :-)

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Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski