[PATCH 1/3] dt-bindings: backlight: ti,lp8864: Add backlight class properties

From: A. Sverdlin

Date: Mon Jun 15 2026 - 08:09:05 EST


From: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Extend the TI LP8864/LP8866 device-tree binding to support backlight
class properties alongside the existing LED class child node.

This is a preparatory change for converting the LP8864 driver from a
pure LED class driver to additionally register a backlight class device,
motivated by a use case on a hot-pluggable segment of an I2C bus. The
generic led-backlight driver (led_bl.c) is a platform driver and thus
inherently non-hotpluggable, which makes it unsuitable for hardware
topologies where the backlight controller resides on a hot-pluggable I2C
bus segment. By making the LP8864 driver itself register a backlight
class device, it becomes a native I2C driver that properly supports
hot-plug/unplug events.

The binding is updated to:
- Reference backlight common.yaml at the top level, making
default-brightness and max-brightness valid optional properties
- Make the "led" child node optional rather than required, since the
backlight class device is now the primary interface
- Use unevaluatedProperties instead of additionalProperties to properly
allow properties inherited from the referenced common schema

The LED child node is preserved for backward compatibility with existing
device-trees. No in-tree device-trees reference this binding, so this
change has no impact on existing mainline users.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Sverdlin <alexander.sverdlin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../bindings/leds/backlight/ti,lp8864.yaml | 16 ++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/backlight/ti,lp8864.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/backlight/ti,lp8864.yaml
index d44232d462bde..11d7e3840c6fb 100644
--- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/backlight/ti,lp8864.yaml
+++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/backlight/ti,lp8864.yaml
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/leds/backlight/ti,lp8864.yaml#
$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#

-title: Texas Instruments - LP8864/LP8866 4/6-Channel LED Driver family
+title: Texas Instruments - LP8864/LP8866 4/6-Channel LED Backlight Driver family

maintainers:
- Andrew Davis <afd@xxxxxx>
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ description: |
https://www.ti.com/product/LP8866-Q1
https://www.ti.com/product/LP8866S-Q1

+allOf:
+ - $ref: common.yaml#
+
properties:
compatible:
const: ti,lp8864
@@ -36,9 +39,15 @@ properties:
vled-supply:
description: LED supply

+ default-brightness:
+ maximum: 65535
+
+ max-brightness:
+ maximum: 65535
+
led:
type: object
- $ref: common.yaml#
+ $ref: /schemas/leds/common.yaml#
properties:
function: true
color: true
@@ -50,9 +59,8 @@ properties:
required:
- compatible
- reg
- - led

-additionalProperties: false
+unevaluatedProperties: false

examples:
- |
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