[PATCH v3 0/3] Extend the LED panic trigger
Matthias Brugger
matthias.bgg at gmail.com
Fri Apr 29 11:57:22 PDT 2016
On 29/04/16 00:03, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> As per commit 916fe619951f ("leds: trigger: Introduce a kernel
> panic LED trigger"), the kernel now supports a new LED trigger
> to hook on the panic blink.
>
> However, the only way of using this is to dedicate a LED device,
> making it rather useless.
>
> To overcome this limitation, the present series introduces the
> capability to switch the LED trigger of certain LED devices upon
> a kernel panic (using the panic notifier).
>
> The decision of which LEDs should be switched to the panic trigger
> is left to each LED device driver. As an example, a devicetree
> boolean property is introduced and used in the leds-gpio driver.
>
> The big change in this v3 is that I've moved the panic trigger
> switching away from the core code and it's now part of
> ledtrig-panic.c. Pavel, Jacek: How does it look?
>
> Changes from v2:
>
> * Added Rob's "panic-indicator" devicetree property Acked-by.
>
> * Fix typo, as pointed out by Robin Murphy.
>
> * Documented "panic-indicator" in bindings/leds/leds-gpio.txt.
>
> * Moved the panic trigger switching from the trigger core code,
> to ledtrig-panic.c.
>
> Changes from v1:
>
> * Dropped the led_trigger_event_nosleep API, and instead just
> clear the blink_delay_{on, off} when the panic is notified.
> This results in less changes.
>
> * Changed the flag to LED_PANIC_INDICATOR, as requested by Jacek.
>
> * Changed the firmware property name to "panic-indicator", as
> requested by Jacek.
>
> Ezequiel Garcia (3):
> leds: triggers: Allow to switch the trigger to "panic" on a kernel
> panic
> devicetree: leds: Introduce "panic-indicator" optional property
> leds: gpio: Support the "panic-indicator" firmware property
>
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/common.txt | 3 ++
> .../devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-gpio.txt | 2 +
> drivers/leds/led-triggers.c | 2 +-
> drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c | 4 ++
> drivers/leds/leds.h | 1 +
> drivers/leds/trigger/Kconfig | 3 ++
> drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-panic.c | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/leds.h | 2 +
> 8 files changed, 63 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
Looks good to me.
Reviewed-by: Matthias Brugger <mbrugger at suse.com>
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