Thread (91 messages) 91 messages, 8 authors, 2015-02-09

[PATCH/RFC v10 16/19] Documentation: leds: Add description of v4l2-flash sub-device

From: Jacek Anaszewski <hidden>
Date: 2015-01-09 15:25:01
Also in: linux-leds, linux-media, lkml
Subsystem: documentation, led subsystem, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Lee Jones, Pavel Machek, Linus Torvalds

This patch extends LED Flash class documention by
the description of interactions with v4l2-flash sub-device.

Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <redacted>
Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Bryan Wu <redacted>
Cc: Richard Purdie <redacted>
---
 Documentation/leds/leds-class-flash.txt |   13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/leds/leds-class-flash.txt b/Documentation/leds/leds-class-flash.txt
index d80096b..2f38627 100644
--- a/Documentation/leds/leds-class-flash.txt
+++ b/Documentation/leds/leds-class-flash.txt
@@ -55,3 +55,16 @@ Following sysfs attributes are exposed for controlling flash led devices:
 			  upper limit
 
 		Flash faults are cleared, if possible, by reading the attribute.
+
+A LED subsystem driver can be controlled also from the level of VideoForLinux2
+subsystem. In order to enable this CONFIG_V4L2_FLASH_LED_CLASS symbol has to
+be defined in the kernel config. The driver must call the v4l2_flash_init
+function to get registered in the V4L2 subsystem. On remove the
+v4l2_flash_release function has to be called (see <media/v4l2-flash.h>).
+
+After proper initialization a V4L2 Flash sub-device is created. The sub-device
+exposes a number of V4L2 controls, which allow for controlling a LED Flash class
+device with use of its internal kernel API.
+Opening the V4L2 Flash sub-device makes the LED subsystem sysfs interface
+unavailable. The interface is re-enabled after the V4L2 Flash sub-device
+is closed.
-- 
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