[PATCH v4 0/4] Add a generic driver for LED-based backlight

[Jacek Anaszewski]

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 at gmail.com>

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.

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Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski