Re: [PATCH 2/2] leds: lp5024: Add the LP5024/18 RGB LED driver

[Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>]

Hi Dan and Pavel,

On 12/19/18 9:41 PM, Dan Murphy wrote:
> Pavel
> 
> On 12/19/2018 02:10 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>> On Wed 2018-12-19 13:41:18, Dan Murphy wrote:
>>> Pavel
>>>
>>> Thanks for the review.
>>>
>>> On 12/19/2018 01:34 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>>> +static DEVICE_ATTR_WO(ctrl_bank_a_mix);
>>>>> +static DEVICE_ATTR_WO(ctrl_bank_b_mix);
>>>>> +static DEVICE_ATTR_WO(ctrl_bank_c_mix);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +static struct attribute *lp5024_ctrl_bank_attrs[] = {
>>>>> +	&dev_attr_ctrl_bank_a_mix.attr,
>>>>> +	&dev_attr_ctrl_bank_b_mix.attr,
>>>>> +	&dev_attr_ctrl_bank_c_mix.attr,
>>>>> +	NULL
>>>>> +};
>>>>> +ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(lp5024_ctrl_bank);
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>> +
>>>>> +static DEVICE_ATTR_WO(led1_mix);
>>>>> +static DEVICE_ATTR_WO(led2_mix);
>>>>> +static DEVICE_ATTR_WO(led3_mix);
>>>>> +
>>>>> +static struct attribute *lp5024_led_independent_attrs[] = {
>>>>> +	&dev_attr_led1_mix.attr,
>>>>> +	&dev_attr_led2_mix.attr,
>>>>> +	&dev_attr_led3_mix.attr,
>>>>> +	NULL
>>>>> +};
>>>>> +ATTRIBUTE_GROUPS(lp5024_led_independent);
>>>>
>>>> Ok, so you are adding new sysfs files. Are they _really_ neccessary?
>>>> We'd like to have uniform interfaces for the leds.
>>>
>>> Yes I am adding these for this driver.
>>> They adjust the individual brightness of each LED connected (what the HW guys called mixing).
>>>
>>> The standard brightness sysfs adjusts all 3 LEDs simultaneously so that all 3 LEDs brightness are
>>> uniform.
>>
>> 1 LED, 1 brightness file... that's what we do. Why should this one be different?
>>
> 
> Yes I understand this and 1 DT child node per LED out but...
> 
> This device has a single register to control 3 LEDs brightness as a group and individual brightness
> registers to control the LEDs independently to mix the LEDs to a specific color.
> 
> There needs to be a way to control both so that developers can mix and adjust the individual RGB and
> then control the brightness of the group during run time without touching the "mixing" value.
> 
> I don't think a user needs nor would want to have 24 different LED nodes with 24 different brightness files.
> Or with the LP5036 that would have 36 LED nodes.
> 
> Table 1 in the data sheet shows how the outputs map to the control banks to the LED registers.

Some time ago we had discussion with Vesa Jääskeläinen about possible
approaches to RGB LEDs [0]. What seemed to be the most suitable
variation of the discussed out-of-tree approach was the "color" property
and array of color triplets defined in Device Tree per each color.

Please refer to [0] for the details.

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/11/9/938

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Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski