Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] leds: simatic-ipc-leds: add new driver for Siemens Industial PCs

From: Alexander Dahl
Date: Thu Mar 18 2021 - 08:41:41 EST


Hei hei,

> Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <lkml@xxxxxxxxx> hat am 18.03.2021 11:27 geschrieben:
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> On 15.03.21 11:48, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
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> Hi,
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> > I have a question, why we can't provide a GPIO driver which is already
> > in the kernel and, with use of the patch series I sent, to convert
> > this all magic to GPIO LEDs as it's done for all normal cases?
>
> Do we alread have a generic led driver that for cases that just
> set/clear bits in some mem/io location ? If not, that would be really
> great to have.

Yes, there is. Look out for compatible "register-bit-led" in device tree. That's from driver in drivers/leds/leds-syscon.c and you can use it inside a syscon node in dts.

It assumes one bit per LED.

Greets
Alex