leds: rgb: Add a multicolor LED driver to group monochromatic LEDs

Grouping multiple monochrome LEDs into a multicolor LED device has a few
benefits over handling the group in user-space:
- The state of the LEDs relative to each other is consistent. In other
  words, if 2 threads competes to set the LED to green and red, the
  end-result cannot be black or yellow.
- The multicolor LED as a whole can be driven through the sysfs LED
  interface.

Signed-off-by: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@traphandler.com>
Reviewed-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230728153731.3742339-5-jjhiblot@traphandler.com
Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/leds/rgb/Kconfig b/drivers/leds/rgb/Kconfig
index 360c8679c6e2..183bccc06cf3 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/rgb/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/leds/rgb/Kconfig
@@ -2,6 +2,18 @@
 
 if LEDS_CLASS_MULTICOLOR
 
+config LEDS_GROUP_MULTICOLOR
+	tristate "LEDs group multi-color support"
+	depends on OF || COMPILE_TEST
+	help
+	  This option enables support for monochrome LEDs that are grouped
+	  into multicolor LEDs which is useful in the case where LEDs of
+	  different colors are physically grouped in a single multi-color LED
+	  and driven by a controller that doesn't have multi-color support.
+
+	  To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
+	  will be called leds-group-multicolor.
+
 config LEDS_PWM_MULTICOLOR
 	tristate "PWM driven multi-color LED Support"
 	depends on PWM