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

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Oct 08 2019 - 15:55:16 EST


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@xxxxxx> .

Best regards,
Pavel
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