linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] leds: add new lp8788 led driver

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:52:48 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	"Kim, Milo" <Milo.Kim@...com>
Cc:	Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@...onical.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"sameo@...ux.intel.com" <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
	"Girdwood, Liam" <lrg@...com>,
	"dwmw2@...radead.org" <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@...il.com>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"a.zummo@...ertech.it" <a.zummo@...ertech.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] leds: add new lp8788 led driver

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 02:34:02PM +0000, Kim, Milo wrote:

> +static void lp8788_brightness_set(struct led_classdev *led_cdev,
> +				enum led_brightness brt_val)
> +{
> +	struct lp8788_led *led =
> +			container_of(led_cdev, struct lp8788_led, led_dev);
> +	enum lp8788_isink_number num = led->isink_num;
> +	int enable;
> +
> +	switch (num) {
> +	case LP8788_ISINK_1:
> +	case LP8788_ISINK_2:
> +	case LP8788_ISINK_3:
> +		lp8788_write_byte(led->lp, lp8788_pwm_addr[num], brt_val);

The brightness_set() (and other) callbacks can be called from atomic
context so you can't interact with an I2C device here, you need to
defer to a workqueue or something (and ideally factor this out into the
framework so we don't need to keep open coding it...).

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