Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] leds: add LED driver for EL15203000 board

Jacek Anaszewski
2019-08-14T19:57:30Z

On 8/14/19 9:46 PM, Oleh Kravchenko wrote:
> Hello Jacek,
>
> 14.08.19 21:18, Jacek Anaszewski пише:
>>>> Why the sequence "1 800 2 800 4 800 8 800 16 800" is duplicated here?
>>>> It seems redundant. But aside of that - aren't the timings modifiable?
>>>> In other words - are these all patterns somehow configurable or they are
>>>> pre-programmed?
>>>>
>>>
>>> All pattern is predefined, you can't change them at all.
>>> I just tried to describe real things what happened in LED board.
>>> It's ticks every 800 milliseconds for Pipe LEDs.
>>
>> It makes me wonder how you figured out the values? If you have
>> a documentation for this controller, could you share how the pattern
>> settings are documented?
>
> I saw the code of firmware.
> Not sure if I can find any documentation for it right now.

Have you tried to alter the values? Or check what happens when
the duplication is removed?

>>>>> +
>>>>> + Inverted cascade mode for Pipe LED:
>>>>> + "30 800 29 800 27 800 23 800 15 800 30 800 29 800 27 800 23 800 15 800"
>>>>
>>>> Similar duplication here.
>>>>
>>>>> +
>>>>> + Bounce mode for Pipe LED:
>>>>> + "1 800 2 800 4 800 8 800 16 800 16 800 8 800 4 800 2 800 1 800"
>>>>
>>>> Instead of two repeating "16 800" you could provide "16 1600".
>>>> But here again is the question whether these values are configurable.
>>>> From what I can see in your driver implementation you're expecting
>>>> exactly the values provided in these examples to enable given hardware
>>>> pattern (led_pattern_cmp()).
>>>>
>>>>> +
>>>>> + Inverted bounce mode for Pipe LED:
>>>>> + "30 800 29 800 27 800 23 800 15 800 15 800 23 800 27 800 29 800 30 800"
>>>>
>>>
>>> Should I cut this patterns to smaller? Or let keep it?
>>>
>>
>> For the first two we could do without sequence duplication.
>
> Ok, I will reduce it.

Please hold on for a while. I will have some more remarks to the driver,
just collecting missing info for now to gain more complete view on this
device.

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Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski