Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] leds/powernv: Add driver for PowerNV platform

[Vasant Hegde <hegdevasant@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On 03/25/2015 10:51 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, 2015-03-20 at 16:34 +0530, Vasant Hegde wrote:
>> From: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>
>> This patch implements LED driver for PowerNV platform using the existing
>> generic LED class framework. It registers classdev structures for all
>> individual LEDs detected on the system through LED specific device tree
>> nodes. Device tree nodes specify what all kind of LEDs present on the
>> same location code. It registers LED classdev structure for each of them.
>>
>> The platform level implementation of LED get and set state has been
>> achieved through OPAL calls. These calls are made available for the
>> driver by exporting from architecture specific codes.
>>
>> As per the LED class framework, the 'brightness_set' function should not
>> sleep. Hence these functions have been implemented through global work
>> queue tasks which might sleep on OPAL async call completion.
>>
>> All the system LEDs can be found in the same regular path /sys/class/leds/.
>> There are two different kind of LEDs present for the same location code,
>> one being the identify indicator and other one being the fault indicator.
>> We don't use LED colors. Hence our LEDs have names in this format.
>>
>>         <location_code>:<ATTENTION|IDENTIFY|FAULT>
>>
>> Any positive brightness value would turn on the LED and a zero value
>> would turn off the LED. The driver will return LED_FULL (255) for any
>> turned on LED and LED_OFF for any turned off LED.
> 

Bryan, Richard,

  Did you get a chance to review this patchset?

-Vasant

> Any comment from the LEDs folks ? I am not too familiar with the LED
> subsystem so I would appreciate at least a cursory review of the high
> level design :-)