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SubjectRe: [PATCH] input: extend EV_LED
Hi!

> > > > >I do not know the LED subsystem in detail, but I do not
> > > > >know any possibility to access the i8042 from different
> > > > >subsystem than the input subsystem.
> > > > >
> > > > >What do you think and recommend?
> > > >
> > > > I think you need to use leds framework for what you are
> > > > trying to do.
> > >
> > > I'm actually not sure if led framework can do that. It was
> > > designed for leds on gpios, and handles blinking itself.
>
> The led framework is generic. If you can write a function to turn it
> on/off you can drive it with the LED framework.

Even if that function is slow and sleeps?

> > > But he could export two leds :-).
> >
> > what do you mean about two leds? The first one would be
> > off/0.5Hz and the other off/1Hz?
> >
> > I read in linux/Documentation/led-class.txt the following:
> >
> > | Some leds can be programmed to flash in hardware. As this
> > isn't a generic
> > | LED device property, this should be exported as a device
> > specific sysfs
> > | attribute rather than part of the class if this
> > functionality is required.
> >
> > Does it mean that neither the input subsystem nor the led
> > subsystem is designed for hardware acelerated blinking leds?
> > Is there any usual way what attribute a hw accelerated
> > blinking LED_MAIL should export?
>
> This has been discussed in several places several times. The problem
> with hardware accelerated flashing is that you're are often limited to
> certain constraints (this case being no exception) and indicating what
> these are to userspace in a generic fashion is difficult.
>
> One way I've come up with is adds capability to the class to have LED
> specific triggers and you can then expose these hardware capabilities as
> an extra trigger specific to the LED.
>
> Another proposal more specific to this use case was to have some
> information behind the scenes which the software timer based trigger
> could use to turn on the "hardware acceleration" if present and capable
> of the requested mode. This might just need a function pointer in the
> core so could be quite neat.

I do not think we want to permit this led to run in "not accelerated"
mode. I believe i8042 accesses are pretty expensive.

> Nether patch exists yet.

Yep, interested party should create one of them :-). (And I'd prefer
the first one, due to i8042 slowness).

Pavel
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