[RESEND PATCH 3/4] leds: leds-ns2: handle can_sleep GPIOs

Jacek Anaszewski j.anaszewski at samsung.com
Mon Jun 22 07:33:03 PDT 2015


Hi Simon,

On 06/18/2015 05:17 PM, Simon Guinot wrote:
> On the board n090401 (Seagate NAS 4-Bay), some of the LEDs are handled
> by the leds-ns2 driver. This LEDs are connected to an I2C GPIO expander
> (PCA95554PW) which means that GPIO access may sleep. This patch makes
> leds-ns2 compatible with such GPIOs by using the *_cansleep() variant of
> the GPIO functions. As a drawback this functions can't be used safely in
> a timer context (with the timer LED trigger for example). To fix this
> issue, a workqueue mechanism (copied from the leds-gpio driver) is used.
>
> Note that this patch also updates slightly the ns2_led_sata_store
> function. The LED state is now retrieved from cached values instead of
> reading the GPIOs previously. This prevents ns2_led_sata_store from
> working with a stale LED state (which may happen when a delayed work
> is pending).
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Guinot <simon.guinot at sequanux.org>
> Signed-off-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort at gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/leds/leds-ns2.c | 56 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
>   1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski at samsung.com>

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Best Regards,
Jacek Anaszewski



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