[PATCH v8 0/5] Add a generic driver for LED-based backlight

Pavel Machek pavel at ucw.cz
Tue Oct 8 19:55:11 UTC 2019


On Thu 2019-10-03 12:40:28, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Thu, 03 Oct 2019, 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.
> 
> [...]
> 
> >  .../bindings/leds/backlight/led-backlight.txt |  28 ++
> >  drivers/leds/led-class.c                      |  98 ++++++-
> >  drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig               |   7 +
> >  drivers/video/backlight/Makefile              |   1 +
> >  drivers/video/backlight/led_bl.c              | 260 ++++++++++++++++++
> >  include/linux/leds.h                          |   6 +
> >  6 files changed, 399 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/backlight/led-backlight.txt
> >  create mode 100644 drivers/video/backlight/led_bl.c
> 
> How should this set be processed?  I'm happy to take it through
> Backlight via an immutable branch and PR to be consumed by LED.

That would make sense to me.

For the record, series is Tested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz> .

Best regards,
									Pavel
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