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SubjectRe: [PATCH v19 04/18] leds: multicolor: Introduce a multicolor class definition
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Randy

Thanks for the review

On 4/2/20 10:47 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi,
> Here are a few changes for you to consider:
>
> On 4/2/20 1:42 PM, Dan Murphy wrote:
>> Introduce a multicolor class that groups colored LEDs
>> within a LED node.
>>
>> The multi color class groups monochrome LEDs and allows controlling two
> multicolor
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>
>> aspects of the final combined color: hue and lightness. The former is
>> controlled via <color>_intensity files and the latter is controlled
>> via brightness file.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>
>> ---
>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst b/Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 000000000000..5bb004999248
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst
>> @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
>> +====================================
>> +Multi Color LED handling under Linux
> Multicolor
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>> +====================================
>> +
>> +Description
>> +===========
>> +The multi color class groups monochrome LEDs and allows controlling two
> multicolor
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>
>> +aspects of the final combined color: hue and lightness. The former is
>> +controlled via the color_intensity array file and the latter is controlled
>> +via brightness file.
>> +
>> +For more details on hue and lightness notions please refer to
>> +https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIECAM02.
>> +
>> +Multicolor Class Control
>> +========================
>> +The multicolor class presents files that groups the colors as indexes in an
>> +array. These files are children under the LED parent node created by the
>> +led_class framework. The led_class framework is documented in led-class.rst
>> +within this documentation directory.
>> +
>> +Each colored LED will be indexed under the color_* files. The order of the
>> +colors are arbitrary the color_index file can be read to determine the color
>> +to index value.
>> +
>> +The color_index file is an array that contains the string list of the colors as
>> +they are defined in each color_* array file.
>> +
>> +The color_intensity is an array that can be read or written to for the
>> +individual color intensities. All elements within this array must be written in
>> +order for the color LED intensities to be updated.
>> +
>> +The color_max_intensity is an array that can be read to indicate each color LED
>> +maximum intensity value.
>> +
>> +The num_color_leds file returns the total number of color LEDs that are
>> +presented in each color_* array.
>> +
>> +Directory Layout Example
>> +========================
>> +root:/sys/class/leds/multicolor:status# ls -lR
>> +-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Oct 19 16:16 brightness
>> +-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Oct 19 16:16 color_index
>> +-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Oct 19 16:16 color_intensity
>> +-r--r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Oct 19 16:16 num_color_leds
>> +
>> +Multicolor Class Brightness Control
>> +===================================
>> +The multiclor class framework will calculate each monochrome LEDs intensity.
> multicolor
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>
>> +
>> +The brightness level for each LED is calculated based on the color LED
>> +intensity setting divided by the parent max_brightness setting multiplied by
>> +the requested brightness.
>> +
>> +led_brightness = brightness * color_intensity/max_brightness
>> +
>> +Example:
>> +A user first writes the color_intensity file with the brightness levels
>> +that for each LED that is necessary to achieve a blueish violet output from a
> drop first "that".
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>> +RGB LED group.
>> +
>> +cat /sys/class/leds/multicolor:status/color_index
>> +green blue red
>> +
>> +echo 43 226 138 > /sys/class/leds/multicolor:status/color_intensity
>> +
>> +red -
>> + intensity = 138
>> + max_brightness = 255
>> +green -
>> + intensity = 43
>> + max_brightness = 255
>> +blue -
>> + intensity = 226
>> + max_brightness = 255
>> +
>> +The user can control the brightness of that RGB group by writing the parent
>> +'brightness' control. Assuming a parent max_brightness of 255 the user may want
>> +to dim the LED color group to half. The user would write a value of 128 to the
>> +parent brightness file then the values written to each LED will be adjusted
>> +base on this value
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>> +
>> +cat /sys/class/leds/multicolor:status/max_brightness
>> +255
>> +echo 128 > /sys/class/leds/multicolor:status/brightness
>> +
>> +adjusted_red_value = 128 * 138/255 = 69
>> +adjusted_green_value = 128 * 43/255 = 21
>> +adjusted_blue_value = 128 * 226/255 = 113
>> +
>> +Reading the parent brightness file will return the current brightness value of
>> +the color LED group.
>> +
>> +cat /sys/class/leds/multicolor:status/brightness
>> +128
>> diff --git a/drivers/leds/Kconfig b/drivers/leds/Kconfig
>> index d82f1dea3711..2e4611b25054 100644
>> --- a/drivers/leds/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/leds/Kconfig
>> @@ -30,6 +30,16 @@ config LEDS_CLASS_FLASH
>> for the flash related features of a LED device. It can be built
>> as a module.
>>
>> +config LEDS_CLASS_MULTI_COLOR
>> + tristate "LED Multi Color LED Class Support"
> Multicolor

Ack

Dan


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