Re: [PATCH 1/4] leds: leds-ns2: add device tree binding

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On Tuesday 16 October 2012, Simon Guinot wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 01:02:39PM +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not overly familiar with the LED subsystem, but isn't this something
> > that could be done with the generic gpio-led driver?
> 
> Basically, the leds-gpio driver allows to associate one pin to one LED.
> It is simple and efficient. The LED can be turned on or off. And using a
> platform callback (gpio_blink_set), some hardware timer blink can be
> enabled. A very few platforms are using this last callback.
> 
> On the ns2 (and other lacie machines), there is three different modes
> for the front blue LED: on, off and SATA activity blink. Three different
> pins are used to configure the LED. Definitively it is not compatible
> with the leds-gpio driver.

Ok, thanks for the explantion. I think your approach is fine then.

	Arnd
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