Re: [PATCH v5 1/2] dt-bindings: leds: Add bindings for lm3697 driver

From: Jacek Anaszewski
Date: Fri Aug 24 2018 - 15:32:38 EST


Hi Pavel,

On 08/24/2018 11:55 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2018-08-17 10:15:27, Dan Murphy wrote:
>> Add the device tree bindings for the lm3697
>> LED driver for backlighting and display.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@xxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
>
> Some nits are below.
>
>> +The LM3697 11-bit LED driver provides high-
>> +performance backlight dimming for 1, 2, or 3 series
>> +LED strings while delivering up to 90% efficiency.
>
> LED core is 8-bit only...

That's not true since this commit:

commit 1bd465e6b0e2b559db47420fea686507a01cfab0
Author: Guennadi Liakhovetski <lg@xxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Jan 10 18:54:39 2009 +0000

leds: allow led-drivers to use a variable range of brightness values

This patch allows drivers to override the default maximum brightness
value
of 255. We take care to preserve backwards-compatibility as much as
possible, so that user-space ABI doesn't change for existing drivers.
LED trigger code has also been updated to use the per-LED maximum.

Signed-off-by: Guennadi Liakhovetski <lg@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


but I missed that max_brightness is not initialized in the driver,
so the core will set it to LED_FULL (255) anyway.

> so full dynamic range can not be currently
> used in linux -- right? Is there any plan to change/fix that?
>
>> +This device is suitable for Display and Keypad Lighting
>
> "display and keypad lighting."
>
>> +Optional properties:
>> + - enable-gpios : gpio pin to enable/disable the device.
>
> Remove "." at end of sentence, for consistency. "GPIO"?
>
>> +All HVLED strings controlled by control bank A
>
> ":"?
>
>> +led-controller@36 {
>> + compatible = "ti,lm3967";
>> + reg = <0x36>;
>> + #address-cells = <1>;
>> + #size-cells = <0>;
>> +
>> + enable-gpios = <&gpio1 28 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
>> + vled-supply = <&vbatt>;
>> +
>> + led@0 {
>> + reg = <0>;
>> + led-sources = <1 1 1>;
>> + label = "white:backlight_cluster";
>> + linux,default-trigger = "backlight";
>> + };
>> +}
>> +
>> +For more product information please see the link below:
>> +http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm3697.pdf
>

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Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski