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SubjectRe: how to represent sequence of brightnesses in /sys (was Re: [PATCH] Add the LED burst trigger)
Hi!

> >> > Reason to do it in kernel is that some machines actually have
> >> > "coprocessor" on i2c that can do it while main CPU is suspended. (For
> >> > more reasons, see beggining of thread).
> >>
> >> Ick ick.
> >>
> >> > Binary attribute with array of bytes should be acceptable, rights?
> >>
> >> Not at all.
> >>
> >> > (IOW write(..., buf, size) )
> >> >
> >> > Ascii array of decimal integers -- no so, right?
> >> >
> >> > (IOW printf("%d %d ..", buf[0], buf[1]) )
> >>
> >> Use an ioctl with a structure to get things correct as a character
> >> device. As odds are, you aren't going to be able to create a "generic"
> >> format for all of this for all types of devices that support such a
> >> "co-processor".
> >
> > Well, we already do have hw-specific driver in the tree,
> > drivers/leds/leds-lp55xx-common.c . But the interface is
> > "interesting" and I believe we should have generic interface and it
> > should use existing trigger framework -- array of brightnesses does
> > not seem too complicated.
> >
> > Do you have suggestion how to pass the brightnesses over sysfs?
> >
>
> What about send those binary stuff as firmware through kernel firmware
> interface and LED trigger sysfs is just for parameters setup and
> enable/disable controlling.

That might be a bit too heavy. LED patterns do change quite often.

lp5523 driver uses this to push binary data through /sys. (It is code
for lp5523 processor in this case). Something like that would still be
better than firmware loader...

cd /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-2/2-0032
echo load > engine1_mode
echo cd /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-2/2-0032
echo 9d804000427f0d7f7f007f0042000000 > engine1_load
echo run > engine1_mode
Pavel
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