Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add driver for Qualcomm LPG

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > Actually we could achieve the goal by listing all available pattern
> > configurations for given LED class device, so in case of Qualcomm LPG
> > driver we could have transition-pattern-1 to transition-pattern-15
> > listed after executing "cat trigger".
> > 
> 
> There's a common pattern-table of 24 (or 64) entries, that is shared
> among the 8 LPGs (each LPG simply has to indices pointing into the
> shared table). Each entry in the table holds a value between 0 and 511.
> So that's a lot of "available pattern configurations".

> > I wonder if I'm not missing some vital constraints here that could
> > make this design unfeasible.
> > 
> 
> Regardless of how we expose RGBs to userspace, the 8 LPG hardware blocks
> are independent of each other. The fact that they end up controlling
> something that is perceived by the human eye as some mixed color is to
> me a matter of system integration, and as such should not convolute the
> implementation of the individual instances.

Well... the 8 LPG blocks share the pattern-table.. and the pattern-table is very
limited. We could statically allocate 3 entries to each LPG block, but that
would not be too useful. And if we dynamically allocate entries depending on
patterns, then the LPG blocks are no longer independent.

									Pavel

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