2 Flash LED handling under Linux
3 ==============================
5 Some LED devices provide two modes - torch and flash. In the LED subsystem
6 those modes are supported by LED class (see Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt)
7 and LED Flash class respectively. The torch mode related features are enabled
8 by default and the flash ones only if a driver declares it by setting
9 LED_DEV_CAP_FLASH flag.
11 In order to enable the support for flash LEDs CONFIG_LEDS_CLASS_FLASH symbol
12 must be defined in the kernel config. A LED Flash class driver must be
13 registered in the LED subsystem with led_classdev_flash_register function.
15 Following sysfs attributes are exposed for controlling flash LED devices:
16 (see Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led-flash)
18 - max_flash_brightness
25 V4L2 flash wrapper for flash LEDs
26 =================================
28 A LED subsystem driver can be controlled also from the level of VideoForLinux2
29 subsystem. In order to enable this CONFIG_V4L2_FLASH_LED_CLASS symbol has to
30 be defined in the kernel config.
32 The driver must call the v4l2_flash_init function to get registered in the
33 V4L2 subsystem. The function takes six arguments:
34 - dev : flash device, e.g. an I2C device
35 - of_node : of_node of the LED, may be NULL if the same as device's
36 - fled_cdev : LED flash class device to wrap
37 - iled_cdev : LED flash class device representing indicator LED associated with
38 fled_cdev, may be NULL
39 - ops : V4L2 specific ops
40 * external_strobe_set - defines the source of the flash LED strobe -
41 V4L2_CID_FLASH_STROBE control or external source, typically
42 a sensor, which makes it possible to synchronise the flash
43 strobe start with exposure start,
44 * intensity_to_led_brightness and led_brightness_to_intensity - perform
45 enum led_brightness <-> V4L2 intensity conversion in a device
46 specific manner - they can be used for devices with non-linear
48 - config : configuration for V4L2 Flash sub-device
49 * dev_name - the name of the media entity, unique in the system,
50 * flash_faults - bitmask of flash faults that the LED flash class
51 device can report; corresponding LED_FAULT* bit definitions are
52 available in <linux/led-class-flash.h>,
53 * torch_intensity - constraints for the LED in TORCH mode
55 * indicator_intensity - constraints for the indicator LED
57 * has_external_strobe - determines whether the flash strobe source
58 can be switched to external,
60 On remove the v4l2_flash_release function has to be called, which takes one
61 argument - struct v4l2_flash pointer returned previously by v4l2_flash_init.
62 This function can be safely called with NULL or error pointer argument.
64 Please refer to drivers/leds/leds-max77693.c for an exemplary usage of the
67 Once the V4L2 sub-device is registered by the driver which created the Media
68 controller device, the sub-device node acts just as a node of a native V4L2
69 flash API device would. The calls are simply routed to the LED flash API.
71 Opening the V4L2 flash sub-device makes the LED subsystem sysfs interface
72 unavailable. The interface is re-enabled after the V4L2 flash sub-device