On Sun, 05 Jan 2020, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> It would be good to get LED backlight to work in clean way for 5.6
> kernel.
>
> As far as I can see, these are neccessary (but not enough; it does not
> work for me): lm3532 changes to register LED with of node, plus device
> tree changes for droid 4, and these generic changes:
>
> commit d457d0c97d6d55fe3e62633791ac05d289a37d2e
> Author: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Oct 3 10:28:12 2019 +0200
>
> backlight: add led-backlight driver
>
> This patch adds a led-backlight driver (led_bl), which is similar to
> pwm_bl except the driver uses a LED class driver to adjust the
> brightness in the HW. Multiple LEDs can be used for a single backlight.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit 44b7adbf0b07904e4198ae1d0a763917d1c68a23
> Author: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@xxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Oct 3 10:28:10 2019 +0200
>
> leds: Add managed API to get a LED from a device driver
>
> If the LED is acquired by a consumer device with devm_led_get(), it is
> automatically released when the device is detached.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel <pavel@xxxxxx>
>
> commit 93b98c570d7f898063ab6204e1b3950a3335dd12
> Author: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx>
> Date: Thu Oct 3 10:28:09 2019 +0200
>
> leds: Add of_led_get() and led_put()
>
> This patch adds basic support for a kernel driver to get a LED device.
> This will be used by the led-backlight driver.
>
> Only OF version is implemented for now, and the behavior is similar to
> PWM's of_pwm_get() and pwm_put().
>
> Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@xxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel <pavel@xxxxxx>
>
> [If you have an idea what else is needed, it would be welcome; it
> works for me in development tree but not in tree I'd like to
> upstream.]
>
> Lee, would you be willing to take "backlight: add led-backlight
> driver"? Would it help if I got "leds: Add managed API to get a LED
> from a device driver" and "leds: Add of_led_get() and led_put()" into
> for_next tree of the LED subsystem?
It looks like you have an open question from Tony on v10.
Is that patch orthogonal, or are there depend{ants,encies}?
> It is kind of important as, well, phone without screen looks pretty
> much dead, and same issue hits Droid 4 and Librem 5 phones at least...
>
> Best regards,
> Pavel
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