Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] dt: bindings: lm3697: Add bindings for lm3697 driver

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Aug 08 2018 - 17:58:46 EST


Hi!

> >>> Yes, and LED strings are statically assigned to banks, right?
> >>>
> >>> So why not simply forget about LED strings for sake of hw
> >>> abstractions, and work just with banks?
> >>
> >> How would you set the control bank register for the correct LED string configuration?
> >
> > Have property at each LED saying which which HVLEDs it controls?
>
> Isn't that what I have already using the reg property?

> Then we would have to aggregate the configuration and make a determination in the driver.

Yes.

> But that does not follow the LED child node ideology.
> Each output of the LED driver should have a child node.
>
> In this case the outputs are the sinks(inputs) and there are only 2 sinks so having 3 LED child nodes would be confusing
> and there are required properties for each child like label.

No, I don't want that.

I'd like 2 child nodes, each specifying which HVLEDs it controls.

Let me edit the original proposal.

Pavel


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