Re: [PATCH/RFC 1/8] leds: Add sysfs and kernel internal API for flash LEDs

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, 2014-03-20 at 15:51 +0100, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> Some LED devices support two operation modes - torch and
> flash. This patch provides support for flash LED devices
> in the LED subsystem by introducing new sysfs attributes
> and kernel internal interface. The attributes being
> introduced are: flash_mode, flash_timeout, max_flash_timeout,
> flash_fault and hw_triggered.
> The modifications aim to be compatible with V4L2 framework
> requirements related to the flash devices management. The
> design assumes that V4L2 driver can take of the LED class
> device control and communicate with it through the kernel
> internal interface. The LED sysfs interface is made
> unavailable then.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>
> Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
> Cc: Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>
> Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
> ---
>  drivers/leds/led-class.c    |  216 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  drivers/leds/led-core.c     |  124 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  drivers/leds/led-triggers.c |   17 +++-
>  drivers/leds/leds.h         |    9 ++
>  include/linux/leds.h        |  136 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 486 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

It seems rather sad to have to insert that amount of code into the core
LED files for something which only a small number of LEDs actually use.
This will increase the footprint of the core LED code significantly.

Is it not possible to add this as a module/extension to the LED core
rather than completely entangling them?

Cheers,

Richard