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[v8,2/9] documention: leds: Add multicolor class documentation

Message ID 20190920174139.30079-3-dmurphy@ti.com
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Series [v8,1/9] leds: multicolor: Add sysfs interface definition | expand

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Dan Murphy Sept. 20, 2019, 5:41 p.m. UTC
Add the support documentation on the multicolor LED framework.
This document defines the directores and file generated by the
multicolor framework.  It also documents usage.

Signed-off-by: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>

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 Documentation/leds/index.rst                 |  1 +
 Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++
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 create mode 100644 Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst

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Comments

Dan Murphy Sept. 23, 2019, 2:50 p.m. UTC | #1
Jacek

Thanks for the review

On 9/21/19 7:28 AM, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> Dan,

>

> On 9/20/19 7:41 PM, Dan Murphy wrote:

>> Add the support documentation on the multicolor LED framework.

>> This document defines the directores and file generated by the

> Now there will be one directory created.

>

> Apart from that - all documentation should go in the same patch

> as the feature being added. So patches 1,2 and 3 should be melded

> together.


I think only patches 1 & 2 should be squashed into a single patch.

Patch 3 are the dt-bindings which should be separated


>

>> multicolor framework.  It also documents usage.

>>

>> Signed-off-by: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>

>> ---

>>   Documentation/leds/index.rst                 |  1 +

>>   Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++

>>   2 files changed, 92 insertions(+)

>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst

>>

>> diff --git a/Documentation/leds/index.rst b/Documentation/leds/index.rst

>> index 060f4e485897..bc70c6aa7138 100644

>> --- a/Documentation/leds/index.rst

>> +++ b/Documentation/leds/index.rst

>> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ LEDs

>>   

>>      leds-class

>>      leds-class-flash

>> +   leds-class-multicolor

>>      ledtrig-oneshot

>>      ledtrig-transient

>>      ledtrig-usbport

>> diff --git a/Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst b/Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst

>> new file mode 100644

>> index 000000000000..063c9a411a1d

>> --- /dev/null

>> +++ b/Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst

>> @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@

>> +====================================

>> +Multi Color LED handling under Linux

>> +====================================

>> +

>> +Description

>> +===========

>> +There are varying monochrome LED colors available for application.  These

>> +LEDs can be used as a single use case LED or can be mixed with other color

>> +LEDs to produce the full spectrum of color.

> I'd say it won't be the most frequent use case. We can expect rather

> compound RGB, RGBA[UV] etc. LED elements being connected to iouts of

> multi color LED controllers like LP50xx. TI mentions RGB LEDs in its

> application notes for instance. I'd mention that in the first place

> and leave what you have above as another use case.


Which application notes are you referring to?


>> Color LEDs that are grouped

>> +can be presented under a single LED node with individual color control.

> Let's skip "with individual color control". This is rather a means for

> keeping backward compatibility. Main goal of the MC class is multi color

> control. We can elaborate on how individual control can be achieved,

> namely one needs to set brightness to max and then can use

> the whole 0-<color>_max_intensity intensity scale for given iout.

> But his can be implied from the information provided below.


Ack


>> +The multicolor class groups these LEDs and allows dynamically setting the value

> What does "dynamically" stand for here? I assume you thought of altering

> colors without changing global brightness, but now it is not the case.


I updated this from what you said below


>> +of a single LED or setting the intensity values of the LEDs in the group and

>> +updating the LEDs virtually simultaneously.

> I propose below instead of the above three lines:

>

> The multi color class groups these LEDs and allows controlling two

> aspects of the final combined color: hue and lightness. The former is

> controlled via <color>_intensity files and the latter is controlled

> via brightness file.

>

> For more details on hue and lightness notions please refer to

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIECAM02.

>

> Note that intensity files only cache the written value and the actual

> change of hardware state occurs upon writing brightness file. This

> allows for changing many factors of the perceived color in a virtually

> unnoticeable way for the human observer.


Ack


>> +Multicolor Class Control

>> +========================

>> +The multicolor class presents the LED groups under a directory called "colors".

>> +This directory is a child under the LED parent node created by the led_class

>> +framework.  The led_class framework is documented in led-class.rst within this

>> +documentation directory.

>> +

>> +Each colored LED will have two files created under the colors directory

>> +<led_color>_intensity and <led_color>_max_intensity. These files will contain

> s/led_color/color/

Ack
>

>> +one of LED_COLOR_ID_* definitions from the header

>> +include/dt-bindings/leds/common.h.

>> +

>> +Directory Layout Example

>> +========================

>> +root:/sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds# ls -lR colors/

>> +-rw-rwxr-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 7 03:10 red_max_intensity

>> +--w--wx-w- 1 root root 4096 Jul 7 03:10 red_intensity

>> +-rw-rwxr-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 7 03:10 green_max_intensity

>> +--w--wx-w- 1 root root 4096 Jul 7 03:10 green_intensity

>> +-rw-rwxr-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 7 03:10 blue_max_intensity

>> +--w--wx-w- 1 root root 4096 Jul 7 03:10 blue_intensity

>> +

>> +Multicolor Class Brightness Control

>> +===================================

>> +The multiclor class framework will calculate each monochrome LEDs intensity.

>> +

>> +The brightness level for each LED is calculated based on the color LED

>> +intensity setting divided by the color LED max intensity setting multiplied by

>> +the requested value.

> s/value/brightness/


Ack


>> +

>> +led_brightness = requested_value * led_color_intensity/led_color_max_intensity

> led_brightness = brightness * <color>_intensity/<color>_max_intensity


Ack


>> +

>> +Example:

>> +Three LEDs are present in the group as defined in "Directory Layout Example"

>> +within this document.

>> +

>> +A user first writes the color LED brightness file with the brightness level that

>> +is necessary to achieve a blueish violet output from the RGB LED group.

>> +

>> +echo 138 > /sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds/red_intensity

>> +echo 43 > /sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds/green_intensity

>> +echo 226 > /sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds/blue_intensity

>> +

>> +red -

>> +	intensity = 138

>> +	max_intensity = 255

>> +green -

>> +	intensity = 43

>> +	max_intensity = 255

>> +blue -

>> +	intensity = 226

>> +	max_intensity = 255

>> +

>> +The user can control the brightness of that RGB group by writing the parent

>> +'brightness' control.  Assuming a parent max_brightness of 255 the user may want

>> +to dim the LED color group to half.  The user would write a value of 128 to the

>> +parent brightness file then the values written to each LED will be adjusted

>> +base on this value

>> +

>> +cat /sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds/max_brightness

>> +255

>> +echo 128 > /sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds/brightness

>> +

>> +adjusted_red_value = 128 * 138/255 = 69

>> +adjusted_green_value = 128 * 43/255 = 21

>> +adjusted_blue_value = 128 * 226/255 = 113

>> +

>> +Reading the parent brightness file will return the current brightness value of

>> +the color LED group.

>> +

>> +cat /sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds/max_brightness

>> +255

>> +

>> +echo 128 > /sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds/brightness

>> +

>> +cat /sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds/max_brightness

> s/max_brightness/brightness/

>

Ack

Dan

>> +128

>>
Jacek Anaszewski Sept. 23, 2019, 9:21 p.m. UTC | #2
Dan,

On 9/23/19 4:50 PM, Dan Murphy wrote:
> Jacek

> 

> Thanks for the review

> 

> On 9/21/19 7:28 AM, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:

>> Dan,

>>

>> On 9/20/19 7:41 PM, Dan Murphy wrote:

>>> Add the support documentation on the multicolor LED framework.

>>> This document defines the directores and file generated by the

>> Now there will be one directory created.

>>

>> Apart from that - all documentation should go in the same patch

>> as the feature being added. So patches 1,2 and 3 should be melded

>> together.

> 

> I think only patches 1 & 2 should be squashed into a single patch.

> 

> Patch 3 are the dt-bindings which should be separated


Right.

>>> multicolor framework.  It also documents usage.

>>>

>>> Signed-off-by: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>

>>> ---

>>>   Documentation/leds/index.rst                 |  1 +

>>>   Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst | 91 ++++++++++++++++++++

>>>   2 files changed, 92 insertions(+)

>>>   create mode 100644 Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst

>>>

>>> diff --git a/Documentation/leds/index.rst b/Documentation/leds/index.rst

>>> index 060f4e485897..bc70c6aa7138 100644

>>> --- a/Documentation/leds/index.rst

>>> +++ b/Documentation/leds/index.rst

>>> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ LEDs

>>>        leds-class

>>>      leds-class-flash

>>> +   leds-class-multicolor

>>>      ledtrig-oneshot

>>>      ledtrig-transient

>>>      ledtrig-usbport

>>> diff --git a/Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst

>>> b/Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst

>>> new file mode 100644

>>> index 000000000000..063c9a411a1d

>>> --- /dev/null

>>> +++ b/Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst

>>> @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@

>>> +====================================

>>> +Multi Color LED handling under Linux

>>> +====================================

>>> +

>>> +Description

>>> +===========

>>> +There are varying monochrome LED colors available for application. 

>>> These

>>> +LEDs can be used as a single use case LED or can be mixed with other

>>> color

>>> +LEDs to produce the full spectrum of color.

>> I'd say it won't be the most frequent use case. We can expect rather

>> compound RGB, RGBA[UV] etc. LED elements being connected to iouts of

>> multi color LED controllers like LP50xx. TI mentions RGB LEDs in its

>> application notes for instance. I'd mention that in the first place

>> and leave what you have above as another use case.

> 

> Which application notes are you referring to?


I don't remember if it was titled exactly AN, but I do remember a sample
PCB design using RGB LEDs mounted circle-wise to achieve the demo
sample shown in the TI LP50xx presentation videos we were discussing
somewhere in last Jan/Feb/March.

-- 
Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski
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diff --git a/Documentation/leds/index.rst b/Documentation/leds/index.rst
index 060f4e485897..bc70c6aa7138 100644
--- a/Documentation/leds/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/leds/index.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@  LEDs
 
    leds-class
    leds-class-flash
+   leds-class-multicolor
    ledtrig-oneshot
    ledtrig-transient
    ledtrig-usbport
diff --git a/Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst b/Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..063c9a411a1d
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+++ b/Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ 
+====================================
+Multi Color LED handling under Linux
+====================================
+
+Description
+===========
+There are varying monochrome LED colors available for application.  These
+LEDs can be used as a single use case LED or can be mixed with other color
+LEDs to produce the full spectrum of color.  Color LEDs that are grouped
+can be presented under a single LED node with individual color control.
+The multicolor class groups these LEDs and allows dynamically setting the value
+of a single LED or setting the intensity values of the LEDs in the group and
+updating the LEDs virtually simultaneously.
+
+Multicolor Class Control
+========================
+The multicolor class presents the LED groups under a directory called "colors".
+This directory is a child under the LED parent node created by the led_class
+framework.  The led_class framework is documented in led-class.rst within this
+documentation directory.
+
+Each colored LED will have two files created under the colors directory
+<led_color>_intensity and <led_color>_max_intensity. These files will contain
+one of LED_COLOR_ID_* definitions from the header
+include/dt-bindings/leds/common.h.
+
+Directory Layout Example
+========================
+root:/sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds# ls -lR colors/
+-rw-rwxr-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 7 03:10 red_max_intensity
+--w--wx-w- 1 root root 4096 Jul 7 03:10 red_intensity
+-rw-rwxr-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 7 03:10 green_max_intensity
+--w--wx-w- 1 root root 4096 Jul 7 03:10 green_intensity
+-rw-rwxr-- 1 root root 4096 Jul 7 03:10 blue_max_intensity
+--w--wx-w- 1 root root 4096 Jul 7 03:10 blue_intensity
+
+Multicolor Class Brightness Control
+===================================
+The multiclor class framework will calculate each monochrome LEDs intensity.
+
+The brightness level for each LED is calculated based on the color LED
+intensity setting divided by the color LED max intensity setting multiplied by
+the requested value.
+
+led_brightness = requested_value * led_color_intensity/led_color_max_intensity
+
+Example:
+Three LEDs are present in the group as defined in "Directory Layout Example"
+within this document.
+
+A user first writes the color LED brightness file with the brightness level that
+is necessary to achieve a blueish violet output from the RGB LED group.
+
+echo 138 > /sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds/red_intensity
+echo 43 > /sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds/green_intensity
+echo 226 > /sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds/blue_intensity
+
+red -
+	intensity = 138
+	max_intensity = 255
+green -
+	intensity = 43
+	max_intensity = 255
+blue -
+	intensity = 226
+	max_intensity = 255
+
+The user can control the brightness of that RGB group by writing the parent
+'brightness' control.  Assuming a parent max_brightness of 255 the user may want
+to dim the LED color group to half.  The user would write a value of 128 to the
+parent brightness file then the values written to each LED will be adjusted
+base on this value
+
+cat /sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds/max_brightness
+255
+echo 128 > /sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds/brightness
+
+adjusted_red_value = 128 * 138/255 = 69
+adjusted_green_value = 128 * 43/255 = 21
+adjusted_blue_value = 128 * 226/255 = 113
+
+Reading the parent brightness file will return the current brightness value of
+the color LED group.
+
+cat /sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds/max_brightness
+255
+
+echo 128 > /sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds/brightness
+
+cat /sys/class/leds/rgb:grouped_leds/max_brightness
+128