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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Gabriele Mazzotta <gabriele.mzt@gmail.com>
Cc: rpurdie@rpsys.net, jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com,
	linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds: Allow drivers to update the core, and generate events on changes
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 22:02:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161227210245.GA7952@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5f442764-825b-1bdc-2763-1c4c8dc1c098@gmail.com>

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Hi!

> > Generating uevent for /sys changes does not make much sense, right?
> 
> I planned to use this patch mostly for keyboard backlights, for
> which some DEs provide a UI similar to the one for screen backlights.
> Having uevents also for /sys changes means having the UI always in
> sync with the kernel/hardware, as it happens for screen backlights.
> In case of LEDs only the application changing the brightness is
> aware of the change.
> 
> >> +extern void led_brightness_force_update(struct led_classdev *led_cdev,
> >> +				enum led_brightness_update_reason reason);
> > 
> > I see this may make some sense, but there are no uses for this in this
> > patch.
> > 
> > My preffered solution would be ... for hardware that changes led
> > brightness itself, introduce a "trigger", so that userspace knows this
> > led is special, and then provide poll()able /sys fs file interested
> > parties can read.
> 
> OK, I'll see if I can come up something good.

Please see this thread:

Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 13:06:14 +0100
From: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>, Jacek Anaszewski
        <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>, Tony Lindgren
	<tony@atomide.com>,
 	linux-leds@vger.kernel.org,
 	linux-omap@vger.kernel.org,
 	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
 	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Darren Hart
 	<dvhart@infradead.org>, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: LEDs that change brightness "itself" -- that's a
trigger. Re: PM regression with LED changes in next-20161109


...and you may want to cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> . He is
apparently solving same problem.

Thanks,
									Pavel
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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-27 21:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-27 19:11 [PATCH] leds: Allow drivers to update the core, and generate events on changes Gabriele Mazzotta
2016-12-27 20:07 ` Pavel Machek
2016-12-27 20:23   ` Gabriele Mazzotta
2016-12-27 21:02     ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2016-12-27 22:57   ` Jacek Anaszewski

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