Re: linux-next: Tree for Apr 29 (drivers/leds/leds-turris-omnia)

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Apr 29 2019 - 14:12:55 EST


On Mon 2019-04-29 19:51:40, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 29.04.19 18:53, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >>> Theoretically. But we both now that probability of that is very low,
> >>> and that likely driver would need other updates, too... right?
> >>
> >> What would be the benefit to add ARM dependency? So that distro
> >> compilations don't ship the turris_omnia driver unnecesarily?
> >
> > That, and so that people are not asked "do you want to enable omnia
> > LEDs?" when they update their kernel on i386.
>
> Is that controller only built-in into some SoCs, or also available
> as a separate chip ?

AFAIU.. separate chip, but runs firmware not likely to be available
outside Turris routers.

Pavel
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