Re: [PATCH] HID: logitech-hidpp: support Color LED feature (8071).

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu May 05 2022 - 04:32:27 EST


Hi!

> > > While I realize that there is e.g. ratbagd which supports a great deal of the
> > > HIDPP features and should allow you to control LEDs, unfortunately for my G305
> > > it does not support the LED (and as far as I remember my G403 does not
> > > work at all with it).
> > >
> > > Then I figured that actually having the LEDs in kernel would allow led triggers
> > > to work with them, so you could do fancy stuff like showing disk or CPU activity
> > > or free physical memory... and here we are now.
> >
> > The one thing that concerns me with those gaming LEDs, is that there
> > is much more than just color/intensity.
> > Those LEDs have effects that you can enable (breathing, pulse, color
> > changing, etc...) and I am not sure how much you are going to be able
> > to sync with the simple LED class.
> >
> Sure.
> I actually had thought a bit about that and would say that the concept
> of breathing, pulse etc.. can be modeled quite well with hardware patterns.

Yes please.

Note that many devices have different patterns with different
limitations; we need to somehow solve that, anyway.

Best regards,
Pavel
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