From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Lechner Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] leds: core: Introduce generic pattern interface Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2018 11:51:01 -0500 Message-ID: <6ecb22d5-fac4-dbe9-87e7-196d87d6d06f@lechnology.com> References: <05c235df7bbcc4b898e7b263bf38338d9c822005.1531711385.git.baolin.wang@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <05c235df7bbcc4b898e7b263bf38338d9c822005.1531711385.git.baolin.wang@linaro.org> Content-Language: en-US Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Baolin Wang , jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com, pavel@ucw.cz Cc: bjorn.andersson@linaro.org, broonie@kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org On 07/16/2018 06:10 AM, Baolin Wang wrote: > From: Bjorn Andersson > > Some LED controllers have support for autonomously controlling > brightness over time, according to some preprogrammed pattern or > function. > > This adds a new optional operator that LED class drivers can implement > if they support such functionality as well as a new device attribute to > configure the pattern for a given LED. > Hmm... I was hoping that this would be a generic pattern trigger that could be used by any LED (e.g. gpio LEDs), not just LEDs with hardware support. I guess I cannot really test this after all. I think it looks good for your use case though.