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LED Transient Trigger
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The leds timer trigger does not currently have an interface to activate
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a one shot timer. The current support allows for setting two timers, one for
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specifying how long a state to be on, and the second for how long the state
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to be off. The delay_on value specifies the time period an LED should stay
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in on state, followed by a delay_off value that specifies how long the LED
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should stay in off state. The on and off cycle repeats until the trigger
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gets deactivated. There is no provision for one time activation to implement
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features that require an on or off state to be held just once and then stay in
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the original state forever.
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Without one shot timer interface, user space can still use timer trigger to
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set a timer to hold a state, however when user space application crashes or
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goes away without deactivating the timer, the hardware will be left in that
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state permanently.
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As a specific example of this use-case, let's look at vibrate feature on
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phones. Vibrate function on phones is implemented using PWM pins on SoC or
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PMIC. There is a need to activate one shot timer to control the vibrate
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feature, to prevent user space crashes leaving the phone in vibrate mode
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permanently causing the battery to drain.
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Transient trigger addresses the need for one shot timer activation. The
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transient trigger can be enabled and disabled just like the other leds
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triggers.
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When an led class device driver registers itself, it can specify all leds
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triggers it supports and a default trigger. During registration, activation
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routine for the default trigger gets called. During registration of an led
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class device, the LED state does not change.
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When the driver unregisters, deactivation routine for the currently active
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trigger will be called, and LED state is changed to LED_OFF.
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Driver suspend changes the LED state to LED_OFF and resume doesn't change
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the state. Please note that there is no explicit interaction between the
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suspend and resume actions and the currently enabled trigger. LED state
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changes are suspended while the driver is in suspend state. Any timers
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that are active at the time driver gets suspended, continue to run, without
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being able to actually change the LED state. Once driver is resumed, triggers
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start functioning again.
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LED state changes are controlled using brightness which is a common led
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class device property. When brightness is set to 0 from user space via
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echo 0 > brightness, it will result in deactivating the current trigger.
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Transient trigger uses standard register and unregister interfaces. During
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trigger registration, for each led class device that specifies this trigger
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as its default trigger, trigger activation routine will get called. During
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registration, the LED state does not change, unless there is another trigger
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active, in which case LED state changes to LED_OFF.
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During trigger unregistration, LED state gets changed to LED_OFF.
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Transient trigger activation routine doesn't change the LED state. It
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creates its properties and does its initialization. Transient trigger
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deactivation routine, will cancel any timer that is active before it cleans
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up and removes the properties it created. It will restore the LED state to
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non-transient state. When driver gets suspended, irrespective of the transient
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state, the LED state changes to LED_OFF.
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Transient trigger can be enabled and disabled from user space on led class
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devices, that support this trigger as shown below:
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echo transient > trigger
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echo none > trigger
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NOTE: Add a new property trigger state to control the state.
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This trigger exports three properties, activate, state, and duration. When
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transient trigger is activated these properties are set to default values.
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- duration allows setting timer value in msecs. The initial value is 0.
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- activate allows activating and deactivating the timer specified by
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duration as needed. The initial and default value is 0. This will allow
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duration to be set after trigger activation.
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- state allows user to specify a transient state to be held for the specified
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duration.
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activate - one shot timer activate mechanism.
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1 when activated, 0 when deactivated.
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default value is zero when transient trigger is enabled,
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to allow duration to be set.
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activate state indicates a timer with a value of specified
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duration running.
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deactivated state indicates that there is no active timer
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running.
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duration - one shot timer value. When activate is set, duration value
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is used to start a timer that runs once. This value doesn't
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get changed by the trigger unless user does a set via
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echo new_value > duration
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state - transient state to be held. It has two values 0 or 1. 0 maps
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to LED_OFF and 1 maps to LED_FULL. The specified state is
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held for the duration of the one shot timer and then the
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state gets changed to the non-transient state which is the
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inverse of transient state.
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If state = LED_FULL, when the timer runs out the state will
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go back to LED_OFF.
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If state = LED_OFF, when the timer runs out the state will
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go back to LED_FULL.
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Please note that current LED state is not checked prior to
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changing the state to the specified state.
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Driver could map these values to inverted depending on the
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default states it defines for the LED in its brightness_set()
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interface which is called from the led brightness_set()
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interfaces to control the LED state.
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When timer expires activate goes back to deactivated state, duration is left
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at the set value to be used when activate is set at a future time. This will
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allow user app to set the time once and activate it to run it once for the
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specified value as needed. When timer expires, state is restored to the
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non-transient state which is the inverse of the transient state.
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echo 1 > activate - starts timer = duration when duration is not 0.
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echo 0 > activate - cancels currently running timer.
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echo n > duration - stores timer value to be used upon next
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activate. Currently active timer if
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any, continues to run for the specified time.
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echo 0 > duration - stores timer value to be used upon next
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activate. Currently active timer if any,
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continues to run for the specified time.
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echo 1 > state - stores desired transient state LED_FULL to be
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held for the specified duration.
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echo 0 > state - stores desired transient state LED_OFF to be
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held for the specified duration.
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What is not supported:
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- Timer activation is one shot and extending and/or shortening the timer
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is not supported.
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Example use-case 1:
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echo transient > trigger
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echo n > duration
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echo 1 > state
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repeat the following step as needed:
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echo 1 > activate - start timer = duration to run once
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echo 1 > activate - start timer = duration to run once
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echo none > trigger
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This trigger is intended to be used for for the following example use cases:
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- Control of vibrate (phones, tablets etc.) hardware by user space app.
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- Use of LED by user space app as activity indicator.
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- Use of LED by user space app as a kind of watchdog indicator -- as
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long as the app is alive, it can keep the LED illuminated, if it dies
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the LED will be extinguished automatically.
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- Use by any user space app that needs a transient GPIO output.
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