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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Adrian Schmutzler <mail@adrianschmutzler.de>
Cc: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to name multiple LEDs of the same type and color
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2020 13:08:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200920110810.GA15219@duo.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00ab01d68eca$d2d4fcc0$787ef640$@adrianschmutzler.de>

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Hi!

> I wonder what would be the correct way to deal with a set of LEDs with the same color/function combination, e.g.
>

(Please wrap at 72).

> 	leds {
> 		compatible = "gpio-leds";
> 
> 		link1 {
> 			function = LED_FUNCTION_RSSI;
> 			color = <LED_COLOR_ID_GREEN>;
> 			gpios = <&gpio 13 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
> 		};
> 
> 		link2 {
> 			function = LED_FUNCTION_RSSI;
> 			color = <LED_COLOR_ID_GREEN>;
> 			gpios = <&gpio 14 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
> 		};
> 
> 		link3 {
> 			function = LED_FUNCTION_RSSI;
> 			color = <LED_COLOR_ID_GREEN>;
> 			gpios = <&gpio 15 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
> 		};
> 	};

Well, this is not really three LEDs. This is more like... LED meter
composed of three LEDs. And we don't have good support for that.

But I guess we'll need it one day. There were some previous attempts:
https://lwn.net/Articles/802967/

Do you plan to control RSSI LEDs from kernel?

Best regards,
								Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-09-20 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-19 21:21 How to name multiple LEDs of the same type and color Adrian Schmutzler
2020-09-20  1:17 ` Marek Behun
2020-09-20 11:08 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2020-09-20 23:31   ` Adrian Schmutzler
2020-09-21  1:00     ` Marek Behun
2020-09-21  8:31       ` Pavel Machek
2020-09-21  9:49         ` Adrian Schmutzler

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