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76 lines
2.6 KiB
Org Mode
76 lines
2.6 KiB
Org Mode
-*- org -*-
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* On/off LEDs should have max_brightness of 1
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* Get rid of enum led_brightness
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It is really an integer, as maximum is configurable. Get rid of it, or
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make it into typedef or something.
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* Review atomicity requirements in LED subsystem
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Calls that may and that may not block are mixed in same structure, and
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semantics is sometimes non-intuitive. (For example blink callback may
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not sleep.) Review the requirements for any bugs and document them
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clearly.
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* LED names are still a mess
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No two LEDs have same name, so the names are probably unusable for the
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userland. Nudge authors into creating common LED names for common
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functionality.
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? Perhaps check for known LED names during boot, and warn if there are
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LEDs not on the list?
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* Split drivers into subdirectories
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The number of drivers is getting big, and driver for on/off LED on a
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i/o port is really quite different from camera flash LED, which is
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really different from driver for RGB color LED that can run its own
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microcode. Split the drivers somehow.
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* Figure out what to do with RGB leds
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Multicolor is a bit too abstract. Yes, we can have
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Green-Magenta-Ultraviolet LED, but so far all the LEDs we support are
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RGB, and not even RGB-White or RGB-Yellow variants emerged.
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Multicolor is not a good fit for RGB LED. It does not really know
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about LED color. In particular, there's no way to make LED "white".
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Userspace is interested in knowing "this LED can produce arbitrary
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color", which not all multicolor LEDs can.
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Proposal: let's add "rgb" to led_colors in drivers/leds/led-core.c,
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add corresponding device tree defines, and use that, instead of
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multicolor for RGB LEDs.
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We really need to do that now; "white" stuff can wait.
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RGB LEDs are quite common, and it would be good to be able to turn LED
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white and to turn it into any arbitrary color. It is essential that
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userspace is able to set arbitrary colors, and it might be good to
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have that ability from kernel, too... to allow full-color triggers.
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* Command line utility to manipulate the LEDs?
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/sys interface is not really suitable to use by hand, should we have
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an utility to perform LED control?
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In particular, LED names are still a mess (see above) and utility
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could help there by presenting both old and new names while we clean
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them up.
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In future, I'd like utility to accept both old and new names while we
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clean them up.
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It would be also nice to have useful listing mode -- name, type,
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current brightness/trigger...
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In future, it would be good to be able to set rgb led to particular
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color.
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And probably user-friendly interface to access LEDs for particular
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ethernet interface would be nice.
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