Thread (31 messages) 31 messages, 5 authors, 2021-05-17

Re: [PATCH 00/17] Add an experimental driver for Intel NUC leds

From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-05-17 08:19:11
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On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 12:53:28PM +0200, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
Hi Greg,

This series add support for the LEDs found at Intel NUCs since
NUC version 6.

On several NUC models, the function of the LEDs are programmable,
which allow them to indicate several different hardware events.

They can even be programmed to represent an userspace-driven event.

Some models come with single colored or dual-colored LEDs, but
high end models have RGB LEDs.

Programming them can ether be done via BIOS or by the OS.

There are 3 different API types, and there is already some OOT
drivers that were written to support them, using procfs, each
one using a different (and IMO confusing) API.

After looking at the existing drivers and not liking the uAPI
interfaces there, I opted to write a new driver from scratch,
unifying support for all different versions and using sysfs
via the leds class.
Just do this the "right way" and not add it to staging first.  Just use
the existing LED class apis and all should be fine, no need for doing
anything unusual here.

thanks,m

greg k-h
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