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

[Pavel Machek]

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 :-)

Being values of same type (etc), this is actually permitted. And it is
better than hack with latch_color :-).

Good.
								Pavel

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