Re: [PATCH] dt-bindings: backlight: Convert common backlight bindings to DT schema

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On Mon, Jun 22, 2020 at 10:57 AM Daniel Thompson
<daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2020 at 11:53:41PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/backlight/pwm-backlight.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/backlight/pwm-backlight.yaml
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 000000000000..7e1f109a38a4
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/backlight/pwm-backlight.yaml
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@
> > > +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
> > > +%YAML 1.2
> > > +---
> > > +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/leds/backlight/pwm-backlight.yaml#
> > > +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> > > +
> > > +title: pwm-backlight bindings
> > > +
> > > +maintainers:
> > > +  - Lee Jones <lee.jones@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > +  - Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > +  - Jingoo Han <jingoohan1@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > +
> > > +properties:
> > > +  compatible:
> > > +    const: pwm-backlight
> > > +
> > > +  pwms:
> > > +    maxItems: 1
> > > +
> > > +  pwm-names: true
> > > +
> > > +  power-supply:
> > > +    description: regulator for supply voltage
> > > +
> > > +  enable-gpios:
> > > +    description: Contains a single GPIO specifier for the GPIO which enables
> > > +      and disables the backlight
> > > +    maxItems: 1
> > > +
> > > +  post-pwm-on-delay-ms:
> > > +    description: Delay in ms between setting an initial (non-zero) PWM and
> > > +      enabling the backlight using GPIO.
> > > +
> > > +  pwm-off-delay-ms:
> > > +    description: Delay in ms between disabling the backlight using GPIO
> > > +      and setting PWM value to 0.
> > > +
> > > +  brightness-levels:
> > > +    description: Array of distinct brightness levels. Typically these are
> > > +      in the range from 0 to 255, but any range starting at 0 will do. The
> > > +      actual brightness level (PWM duty cycle) will be interpolated from
> > > +      these values. 0 means a 0% duty cycle (darkest/off), while the last
> > > +      value in the array represents a 100% duty cycle (brightest).
> > > +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32-array
> > > +
> > > +  default-brightness-level:
> > > +    description: The default brightness level (index into the array defined
> > > +      by the "brightness-levels" property).
> > > +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint32
> > Same comment as before...
>
> Sorry the "ditto" meant I didn't thing about PWM as much as I should
> have.
>
> The situation for PWM is a little different to LED. That's mostly
> because we decided not to clutter the LED code with
> "num-interpolated-steps".
>
> The PWM code implements the default-brightness-level as an index into
> the brightness array *after* it has been expanded using interpolation.
> In other words today Linux treats the default-brightness-level more
> like[1].
>
>     description: The default brightness level. When
>       num-interpolated-steps is not set this is simply an index into
>       the array defined by the "brightness-levels" property. If
>       num-interpolated-steps is set the brightness array will be
>       expanded by interpolation before we index to get a default
>       level.
>
> This is the best I have come up with so far... but I concede it still
> lacks elegance.

Happy to add this or whatever folks want if there's agreement, but I
don't want to get bogged down on re-reviewing and re-writing the
binding on what is just a conversion. There's a mountain of bindings
to convert.

Rob
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