On 09/01/2016 07:25 AM, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
On 31 August 2016 at 21:00, Rafał Miłecki <zaj...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 31 August 2016 at 20:23, Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
On Tue, 30 Aug 2016, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
Not really as it won't cover some pretty common use cases. Many home
routers have few USB ports (2-5) and only 1 USB LED. It has to be
possible to assign few USB ports to a single LED (trigger). That way
LED should be turned on (and kept on) if there is at least 1 USB
device connected. You obviously can't do:
echo "usb1-1 usb1-2 usb2-1" > /sys/class/leds/foo/trigger
This was already brought up by Rob (who mentioned CPU trigger) and I
replied him pretty much the same way in:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/29/38
(reply starts with "Anyway, the serious limitation I see").
The code for a bunch of triggers must already be written. What would
the user do if he wanted to flash a single LED in response to both
CPU activity and MTD activity? If not
echo "cpu mtd" >/sys/class/leds/foo/trigger
then what?
Well, it sounds like a new feature then. Shall we add an extra API
with a request function for turning LED on? It could internally count
how many requests were raised and keep LED on as long as there is at
least 1 left. I guess we should implement it in trigger "subsystem"
(if I can call it so). Does it sound like a good plan?
I'm pretty sure noone ever planned to have more than 1 trigger
assigned to a single LED. I just realized there will be a problem with
proposed solution: sysfs files conflict.
Consider 2 existing triggers for a moment:
1) oneshot: it creates following sysfs files:
/sys/class/leds/foo/delay_on
/sys/class/leds/foo/delay_off
/sys/class/leds/foo/invert
/sys/class/leds/foo/shot
2) timer: it creates following sysfs files:
/sys/class/leds/foo/delay_on
/sys/class/leds/foo/delay_off
Activating both of them will probably cause a WARNING in sysfs. They
can't coexist :(
We should probably have per-trigger subdirs, e.g.:
/sys/class/leds/foo/trigger-oneshot/delay_on
/sys/class/leds/foo/trigger-oneshot/delay_off
/sys/class/leds/foo/trigger-oneshot/invert
/sys/class/leds/foo/trigger-oneshot/shot
/sys/class/leds/foo/trigger-timer/delay_on
/sys/class/leds/foo/trigger-timer/delay_off
but implementing it now would break the ABI.
One workaround I can see is doing triggers V2, they:
1) Would put sysfs files in /sys/class/leds/foo/trigger-bar/
2) Use new API for *requesting* LED to be on/off
3) There would be a counter of requests in V2 API
4) Multiple triggers V2 would be allowed to be used (assigned) at the same time
Currently we support only triggers dedicated to specific type of
devices. Even in case of triggers that don't expose custom sysfs
attributes, registered with led_trigger_register_simple(), device
drivers have to generate trigger event with dedicated function, e.g:
- ledtrig-cpu: void ledtrig_cpu(enum cpu_led_event ledevt)
- ledtrig-disk: void ledtrig_disk_activity(void)
- ledtrig-mtd: void ledtrig_mtd_activity(void)
If one wanted to have the LED notified by different type of devices,
then they would have to implement a trigger that would exposed all
required types of API.
Unfortunately, there are many possible combinations of
triggers and that doesn't sound sane to add a new one when someone
will find it useful. Of course it would entail adding a call to the
new trigger API in the drivers, which doesn't seem like something
acceptable in the mainline.
--
Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski
