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Message-Id: <1334529245-14385-1-git-send-email-jonas@southpole.se>
Date:	Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:34:05 +0200
From:	Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>
To:	shuahkhan@...il.com
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, neilb@...e.de,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, richard.purdie@...uxfoundation.org,
	Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] leds: add "kickable" LED trigger


This LED trigger allows userspace to "kick" the LED so that it illuminates
for a short period of time.  That period is currently hard-coded to
200 ms, but that can be easily fixed by adding a sysfs attribute for
the illumination time.

The original motivation for this trigger was to provide a way for
userspace to provide an activity indicator for data sent/received on a
serial bus, along the lines of a network activity indicator on a NIC.

Signed-off-by: Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>
---

Hi,

I just stumbled across this mail thread today.  I've got this trigger
that we've been using in another project that seems to fit the bill
here.  It should just be a matter of adding a sysfs attribute to set
the "illumination" duration to get what you need for the vibrator interface.

The interface is simple enough.  You set the LED (vibrator) trigger to
"kickable" and then you get a file "kick" in the sysfs directory for
the led.  Any time you write to that file, the illumination timer is
reset so that the LED shines for the next 200ms.  If the LED is not
kicked within 200 ms, the LED is extinguished.

Feel free to modify this to fit your needs.

Caveat:  I haven't even compile tested this on a recent kernel... we've
been using this on a 2.6.32 kernel.  As far as I know, though, the LED
interfaces haven't changed recently, so this is probably usable as it.

Best regards,
Jonas

 drivers/leds/ledtrig-kickable.c |  111 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 111 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/leds/ledtrig-kickable.c

diff --git a/drivers/leds/ledtrig-kickable.c b/drivers/leds/ledtrig-kickable.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..50699b1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drivers/leds/ledtrig-kickable.c
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+/*
+ * LED Kernel "Kickable" Trigger
+ *
+ * Copyright 2012 Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation.
+ *
+ * This is a simple trigger that provides a file 'kick' for the LED's
+ * userspace interface.  Writing anything to the 'kick' file causes the
+ * LED to illuminate for 200 ms.  Everytime the LED is 'kicked', its
+ * timer is reset to a full 200 ms.
+ *
+ * This can be used as an activity indicator for userspace processes.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/device.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
+#include <linux/leds.h>
+#include "leds.h"
+
+struct kickable_trig_data {
+	struct timer_list timer;
+};
+
+static void led_kickable_function(unsigned long data)
+{
+	struct led_classdev *led_cdev = (struct led_classdev *) data;
+
+	led_set_brightness(led_cdev, LED_OFF);
+}
+
+static ssize_t kick_store(struct device *dev,
+		struct device_attribute *attr, const char *buf, size_t size)
+{
+	struct led_classdev *led_cdev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+	struct kickable_trig_data *kdata = led_cdev->trigger_data;
+	unsigned long delay = 0;
+
+	delay = msecs_to_jiffies(200);
+
+	mod_timer(&kdata->timer, jiffies + delay);
+
+	led_set_brightness(led_cdev, LED_FULL);
+
+	return size;
+}
+
+static DEVICE_ATTR(kick, 0200, NULL, kick_store);
+
+static void kickable_trig_activate(struct led_classdev *led_cdev)
+{
+	struct kickable_trig_data *kickable_data;
+	int rc;
+
+	kickable_data = kzalloc(sizeof(*kickable_data), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!kickable_data)
+		return;
+
+	led_cdev->trigger_data = kickable_data;
+	setup_timer(&kickable_data->timer,
+		    led_kickable_function, (unsigned long) led_cdev);
+
+
+	rc = device_create_file(led_cdev->dev, &dev_attr_kick);
+	if (rc)
+		return;
+
+	led_set_brightness(led_cdev, LED_OFF);
+}
+
+static void kickable_trig_deactivate(struct led_classdev *led_cdev)
+{
+	struct kickable_trig_data *kdata = led_cdev->trigger_data;
+
+	if (kdata) {
+		del_timer_sync(&kdata->timer);
+		kfree(kdata);
+		device_remove_file(led_cdev->dev, &dev_attr_kick);
+	}
+
+	led_set_brightness(led_cdev, LED_OFF);
+}
+
+static struct led_trigger kickable_led_trigger = {
+	.name     = "kickable",
+	.activate = kickable_trig_activate,
+	.deactivate = kickable_trig_deactivate,
+};
+
+static int __init kickable_trig_init(void)
+{
+	return led_trigger_register(&kickable_led_trigger);
+}
+
+static void __exit kickable_trig_exit(void)
+{
+	led_trigger_unregister(&kickable_led_trigger);
+}
+
+module_init(kickable_trig_init);
+module_exit(kickable_trig_exit);
+
+MODULE_AUTHOR("Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Kickable LED trigger");
+MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
-- 
1.7.0.4

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