Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] leds: Introduce userspace leds driver

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Sep 24 2016 - 08:06:11 EST


On Thu 2016-09-22 15:43:35, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:16 PM, David Lechner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > This driver creates a userspace leds driver similar to uinput.
>
> Just out of curiosity: what is this used for?
> The typical usecase evades me, so I'd really want to know.

I have RGB led connected using ESP board over ttyUSB0. I guess I'll
want to keep the driver in userspace, but I still may want "normal"
/sys/class/leds interface for it.
Pavel
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