Various LED complexities was Re: [PATCH v5 05/26] leds: core: Add support for composing LED class device names

[Pavel Machek]

On Fri 2019-06-28 13:30:30, David Laight wrote:
> From: Linus Walleij
> > Sent: 28 June 2019 09:46
> ...
> > A problem with LEDs is that it invites bikeshedding because it is too
> > relateable.
> 
> Bikeshedding leds :-)
> 
> It also isn't at all clear how to handle bi-colour and tri-colour leds.
> ISTR the usual interface lets you set the brightness, but more often
> leds are single brightness but multi-colour.
> Eg the ethernet 'speed' led which is (usually) off/orange/green.
> 
> Changing the brightness either means changing the current or using PWM.
> Both really require more hardware support than changing colours.
> 
> I've done some led driving (for a front panel) from a PLD (small FPGA).
> As well as the obvious things I did:
> - dim: 1/8th on at 80Hz.
> - flash: 1/8th on at 4Hz.
> - orange: 50-50 red-green at 80Hz on an RGB led.
> 
> There was also the 'ethernet activity' led which could either be driven
> by the hardware, or forced on/off/flash by the driver.
> If driven by the hardware, the software could read the current state.
> 
> None of this really fitted the Linux leds interface.

Well, we are working on some of those :-). But lets discuss that in
separate threads.

In particular we are working on triggers and RGB LEDs.

bi-color LEDs seem to handled as two separate LEDs. Not much expected
to change there.
									
									Pavel

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