leds: Add support to leds with readable status
authorHenrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:47:48 +0000 (09:47 +0000)
committerRichard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Thu, 24 Apr 2008 22:37:42 +0000 (23:37 +0100)
commit29d76dfa29fe22583aefddccda0bc56aa81035dc
treefbae9207af63cb270b715a29ee7dc053d7b8a037
parentca3259b3603539e72faacc6821050ee889a52103
leds: Add support to leds with readable status

Some led hardware allows drivers to query the led state, and this patch
adds a hook to let the led class take advantage of that information when
available.

Without this functionality, when access to the led hardware is not
exclusive (i.e. firmware or hardware might change its state behind the
kernel's back), reality goes out of sync with the led class' idea of what
the led is doing, which is annoying at best.

Behaviour for drivers that do not or cannot read the led status is
unchanged.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
drivers/leds/led-class.c
include/linux/leds.h