Re: [RFC] User-defined leds

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Aug 05 2016 - 15:58:25 EST


On Fri 2016-08-05 14:54:33, David Lechner wrote:
> On 08/05/2016 02:51 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> >Could the device tree be used to bind LED driver to otherwise unused
> >gpio?
>
> There is already a leds-gpio driver that does this.
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-gpio.txt

Yeah, I know, that's why I suggested it :-).

What might be missing: simple way to attach leds-gpio driver to
hardware on non-devicetree machines, and perhaps teaching leds-gpio
special gpio value "no gpio" meaning ... that hardware is not actually
updated.

Pavel
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