Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] leds: core: Introduce generic pattern interface

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Jul 16 2018 - 17:44:01 EST


On Mon 2018-07-16 11:51:01, David Lechner wrote:
> On 07/16/2018 06:10 AM, Baolin Wang wrote:
> >From: Bjorn Andersson <bjorn.andersson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >Some LED controllers have support for autonomously controlling
> >brightness over time, according to some preprogrammed pattern or
> >function.
> >
> >This adds a new optional operator that LED class drivers can implement
> >if they support such functionality as well as a new device attribute to
> >configure the pattern for a given LED.
> >
>
> Hmm... I was hoping that this would be a generic pattern trigger that
> could be used by any LED (e.g. gpio LEDs), not just LEDs with hardware
> support. I guess I cannot really test this after all.
>
> I think it looks good for your use case though.

Generic trigger doing patterns on any hardware would be welcome, too.

I even have a copy of code somewhere, if you want to dust it off,
clean up and merge...

Pavel
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