leds: dynamic: Add Dynamic Lighting class interface and Aura (hid-asus) support

[scardracs]

Summary

This pull request introduces the Dynamic Lighting LED class to the kernel and adds driver support in hid-asus for ASUS ROG Aura keyboards and chassis lightbars.
It provides a standard sysfs ABI for devices that expose multi-zone effects, palette programming, direct RGB frame streaming, and lighting power-state persistence, without requiring individual drivers to invent ad-hoc sysfs layouts.

NOTE: due to heavy work on both here and linux the text on that OP can or cannot be accurate

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Commits Overview

1. leds: Add LED_DYNAMIC_LIGHTING flag to LED core
   • Defines LED_DYNAMIC_LIGHTING in struct led_classdev to enable runtime identification of Dynamic Lighting class devices, following the pattern of LED_MULTI_COLOR.
2. leds: dynamic: Add Dynamic Lighting core class interface
   • Implements the new class (drivers/leds/led-class-dynamic.c, include/linux/led-dynamic-lighting.h) extending led_classdev.
   • Exposes common effect, speed, direction, and power-state controls, plus binary direct-buffer and frame write interfaces.
   • Serializes writes using led_access and the class mutex to ensure thread safety alongside LED triggers.
3. docs: leds: Document the Dynamic Lighting class ABI
   • Documents the user-facing sysfs interface in Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-leds-dynamic and Documentation/leds/leds-class-dynamic.rst.
   • Updates Documentation/leds/index.rst and registers the subsystem files in MAINTAINERS.
4. HID: asus: Add Dynamic Lighting support for Aura devices
   • Integrates Dynamic Lighting support into hid-asus.
   • Discovers keyboard layout and chassis lightbar zones via the Aura probe report.
   • Implements zone power unmasking (0xbd), zone activation (0xc0), and hardware effect engine programming (0xb3) with the firmware latch commit sequence (0xb5 SET -> 0xb4 COMMIT -> 0xb5 SET).
   • Supports direct per-key/lightbar packed RGB frame writes through the class direct-buffer streaming interface.
   • Fully preserves backward compatibility with the existing asus::kbd_backlight brightness control.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features
  • Added Dynamic Lighting controls for supported devices, including RGB streaming, hardware effects, color palettes, animation speed and direction, power-state persistence, and matrix or zone information.
  • Added ASUS Aura lighting support for keyboard, lightbar, and global zones, with selectable automatic, unified, and split modes.
  • Added lighting controls for supported ASUS ROG Slash devices.
• Documentation
  • Added guides and reference information covering Dynamic Lighting controls, supported values, and usage constraints.

[scardracs]

I've moved the patch to 7.2 in order to have some stability (7.3 is way too bugged as for now). When the situation will be better I'll move it back to 7.3. I leave that draft open for now

[scardracs]

Added an aura:global that controls both keyboard and lightbar for those devices that don't have the ability to control them separately

[pastaq]

I'm concerned that this implementation is too restrictive. I was under the impression that the classdev would outline the shape of the ABI, and a generic implementation would also exist that would implement them. Currently I don't see how I can transition the existing hid-[lenovo-go*|oxp|msi] drivers to this which need more dynamic ability to describe built in effects. Ideally this could be a drop in replacement where I just need to define the index/range for each and assign function pointers like I do with brightness/multi_intensity.

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In `@drivers/hid/hid-asus.c`:
- Line 1696: Update asus_lamparray_cmp_x to compare the x values directly
instead of subtracting them, preserving the comparator’s negative, zero, or
positive ordering without signed overflow.
- Around line 766-772: Update the report-send fallback in the relevant function
to preserve the HID_FEATURE_REPORT attempt after hid_hw_output_report and the
raw HID_OUTPUT_REPORT request fail for report IDs 0x5d and 0x5e. Match the
complete fallback chain used by asus_aura_set_feature_unlocked().
- Around line 1624-1638: In asus_find_lamparray_sibling() and
asus_lamparray_unbind_from_owners(), verify each sibling interface is bound to
the same non-null driver as the current interface before reading its intfdata.
Skip interfaces that fail this check, then preserve the existing HID-device
handling for matching interfaces.
- Around line 3743-3748: Guard the LampArray detection and early-return branch
in asus_probe with the same IS_REACHABLE(CONFIG_LEDS_CLASS_DYNAMIC) condition
used by the removal path, so configurations without reachable Dynamic Lighting
continue through worker creation. Keep the existing LampArray behavior unchanged
when Dynamic Lighting is reachable.

In `@drivers/leds/led-class-dynamic.c`:
- Around line 529-533: Update direct_buffer_write and frame_write to accept
kernfs’s offset-based chunks for writes larger than PAGE_SIZE; stage each
instance’s chunks and invoke the driver only when the complete buffer has
arrived (off + count == size), preserving the existing payload validation.
- Around line 381-397: Update the palette parsing loop to reject any character
after a parsed color that is neither whitespace nor the end of the string;
validate immediately after advancing past the six hex digits so adjacent entries
such as `#ff0000#00ff00` are rejected.

In `@MAINTAINERS`:
- Line 4128: Move the Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led-driver-hid-asus
pattern from the ASUS platform-driver entry to HID CORE LAYER in MAINTAINERS,
keeping the pattern listed only under HID CORE LAYER.

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• Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led-driver-hid-asus
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• Documentation/leds/index.rst
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• MAINTAINERS
• drivers/hid/Kconfig
• drivers/hid/hid-asus.c
• drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
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• drivers/leds/led-class-dynamic.c
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[scardracs]

Wait I did not close it!

[pastaq]

@scardracs can you rebase on the latest master? unstable moves quickly.

@NeroReflex we should figure out a system to make this less of a pain.

[NeroReflex]

@scardracs can you rebase on the latest master? unstable moves quickly.

@NeroReflex we should figure out a system to make this less of a pain.

In theory in the action there is nothing referencing master so if users enable actions theirs branch rebases the same way ours did, no?

[scardracs]

@scardracs can you rebase on the latest master? unstable moves quickly.

@NeroReflex we should figure out a system to make this less of a pain.

In theory in the action there is nothing referencing master so if users enable actions theirs branch rebases the same way ours did, no?

I had it disabled because it was always failing. Now that you have it fixed i could enable it again