Re: [RFC][PATCH] as3645a: introduce new LED Flash driver

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Hi Andy,

On Monday 12 September 2011 12:19:15 Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 17:08 +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> > On Friday 09 September 2011 16:59:31 Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > The driver supports the AS3645A, LM3555 chips and their clones.
> > > 
> > > Accordingly to datasheet the AS3645 chip is a "1000/720mA Ultra Small
> > > High efficient single/dual LED Flash Driver with Safety Features".
> > > LM3555 is similar one, that has following difference - the current in
> > > the torch mode is the same (60mA) for the levels 0, 1, and 2.
> > > 
> > > This driver is a huge rework of the previously published driver which
> > > could be found in the MeeGo kernel package.
> > 
> > Thank you for the patch.
> > 
> > I was about to send a new AS3645A driver version that supports more chip
> > features. I will CC you.
> 
> It's nice to hear this, however, I have some comments and questions I
> will ask.
> 
> And just out of curiosity, how many drivers do you have already done,
> but not published yet?

I'm not sure how much information I'm allowed to give here, so I will let 
Sakari answer that question.

> I would like (and I hope you too) to avoid such double effort in the future.

I definitely do. The reason why the as3645a driver hasn't been posted before 
is that we only got permission to release the code recently.

-- 
Regards,

Laurent Pinchart
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