Re: [PATCH v19 04/18] leds: multicolor: Introduce a multicolor class definition

[Randy Dunlap]

Hi,
Here are a few changes for you to consider:

On 4/2/20 1:42 PM, Dan Murphy wrote:
> Introduce a multicolor class that groups colored LEDs
> within a LED node.
> 
> The multi color class groups monochrome LEDs and allows controlling two

      multicolor

> aspects of the final combined color: hue and lightness. The former is
> controlled via <color>_intensity files and the latter is controlled
> via brightness file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@xxxxxx>
> ---


> diff --git a/Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst b/Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..5bb004999248
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst
> @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
> +====================================
> +Multi Color LED handling under Linux

   Multicolor

> +====================================
> +
> +Description
> +===========
> +The multi color class groups monochrome LEDs and allows controlling two

       multicolor

> +aspects of the final combined color: hue and lightness. The former is
> +controlled via the color_intensity array file and the latter is controlled
> +via brightness file.
> +
> +For more details on hue and lightness notions please refer to
> +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIECAM02.
> +
> +Multicolor Class Control
> +========================
> +The multicolor class presents files that groups the colors as indexes in an
> +array.  These files are children under the LED parent node created by the
> +led_class framework.  The led_class framework is documented in led-class.rst
> +within this documentation directory.
> +
> +Each colored LED will be indexed under the color_* files. The order of the
> +colors are arbitrary the color_index file can be read to determine the color
> +to index value.
> +
> +The color_index file is an array that contains the string list of the colors as
> +they are defined in each color_* array file.
> +
> +The color_intensity is an array that can be read or written to for the
> +individual color intensities.  All elements within this array must be written in
> +order for the color LED intensities to be updated.
> +
> +The color_max_intensity is an array that can be read to indicate each color LED
> +maximum intensity value.
> +
> +The num_color_leds file returns the total number of color LEDs that are
> +presented in each color_* array.
> +
> +Directory Layout Example
> +========================
> +root:/sys/class/leds/multicolor:status# ls -lR
> +-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          4096 Oct 19 16:16 brightness
> +-r--r--r--    1 root     root          4096 Oct 19 16:16 color_index
> +-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          4096 Oct 19 16:16 color_intensity
> +-r--r--r--    1 root     root          4096 Oct 19 16:16 num_color_leds
> +
> +Multicolor Class Brightness Control
> +===================================
> +The multiclor class framework will calculate each monochrome LEDs intensity.

       multicolor

> +
> +The brightness level for each LED is calculated based on the color LED
> +intensity setting divided by the parent max_brightness setting multiplied by
> +the requested brightness.
> +
> +led_brightness = brightness * color_intensity/max_brightness
> +
> +Example:
> +A user first writes the color_intensity file with the brightness levels
> +that for each LED that is necessary to achieve a blueish violet output from a

drop first "that".
                     that are necessary                                   from an

> +RGB LED group.
> +
> +cat /sys/class/leds/multicolor:status/color_index
> +green blue red
> +
> +echo 43 226 138 > /sys/class/leds/multicolor:status/color_intensity
> +
> +red -
> +	intensity = 138
> +	max_brightness = 255
> +green -
> +	intensity = 43
> +	max_brightness = 255
> +blue -
> +	intensity = 226
> +	max_brightness = 255
> +
> +The user can control the brightness of that RGB group by writing the parent
> +'brightness' control.  Assuming a parent max_brightness of 255 the user may want
> +to dim the LED color group to half.  The user would write a value of 128 to the
> +parent brightness file then the values written to each LED will be adjusted
> +base on this value

                value.

> +
> +cat /sys/class/leds/multicolor:status/max_brightness
> +255
> +echo 128 > /sys/class/leds/multicolor:status/brightness
> +
> +adjusted_red_value = 128 * 138/255 = 69
> +adjusted_green_value = 128 * 43/255 = 21
> +adjusted_blue_value = 128 * 226/255 = 113
> +
> +Reading the parent brightness file will return the current brightness value of
> +the color LED group.
> +
> +cat /sys/class/leds/multicolor:status/brightness
> +128
> diff --git a/drivers/leds/Kconfig b/drivers/leds/Kconfig
> index d82f1dea3711..2e4611b25054 100644
> --- a/drivers/leds/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/leds/Kconfig
> @@ -30,6 +30,16 @@ config LEDS_CLASS_FLASH
>  	  for the flash related features of a LED device. It can be built
>  	  as a module.
>  
> +config LEDS_CLASS_MULTI_COLOR
> +	tristate "LED Multi Color LED Class Support"

	              Multicolor

> +	depends on LEDS_CLASS
> +	help
> +	  This option enables the multicolor LED sysfs class in /sys/class/leds.
> +	  It wraps LED class and adds multicolor LED specific sysfs attributes
> +	  and kernel internal API to it. You'll need this to provide support
> +	  for multicolor LEDs that are grouped together. This class is not
> +	  intended for single color LEDs. It can be built as a module.
> +
>  config LEDS_BRIGHTNESS_HW_CHANGED
>  	bool "LED Class brightness_hw_changed attribute support"
>  	depends on LEDS_CLASS


thanks.
-- 
~Randy