On 7/17/19 4:15 PM, Jean-Jacques Hiblot wrote: > This series aims to add a led-backlight driver, similar to pwm-backlight, > but using a LED class device underneath. > > A few years ago (2015), Tomi Valkeinen posted a series implementing a > backlight driver on top of a LED device: > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7293991/ > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7294001/ > https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7293981/ > > The discussion stopped because Tomi lacked the time to work on it. > > changes in v4: > - fix dev_err() messages and commit logs following the advices of Pavel > - cosmetic changes (indents, getting rid of "? 1 : 0" in > led_match_led_node()) > > changes in v3: > - dt binding: don't limit the brightness range to 0-255. Use the range of > the underlying LEDs. as a side-effect, all LEDs must now have the same > range > - driver: Adapt to dt binding update. > - driver: rework probe() for clarity and remove the remaining goto. > > changes in v2: > - handle more than one LED. > - don't make the backlight device a child of the LED controller. > - make brightness-levels and default-brightness-level optional > - removed the option to use a GPIO enable. > - removed the option to use a regulator. It should be handled by the LED > core > - don't make any change to the LED core (not needed anymore) > > Jean-Jacques Hiblot (2): > leds: Add managed API to get a LED from a device driver > dt-bindings: backlight: Add led-backlight binding > > Tomi Valkeinen (2): > leds: Add of_led_get() and led_put() > backlight: add led-backlight driver > > .../bindings/leds/backlight/led-backlight.txt | 28 ++ > drivers/leds/led-class.c | 92 ++++++ > drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig | 7 + > drivers/video/backlight/Makefile | 1 + > drivers/video/backlight/led_bl.c | 268 ++++++++++++++++++ > include/linux/leds.h | 6 + > 6 files changed, 402 insertions(+) > create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/backlight/led-backlight.txt > create mode 100644 drivers/video/backlight/led_bl.c > For the whole set: Acked-by: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@xxxxxxxxx> Lee - we need to create immutable branch for this set since there will be some interfering changes in the LED core in this cycle. I can create the branch and send the pull request once we will obtain the ack from Rob for DT bindings, unless you have other preference. -- Best regards, Jacek Anaszewski _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
