Re: [PATCH v8 0/5] Add a generic driver for LED-based backlight
From: Lee Jones
Date: Thu Oct 03 2019 - 07:40:36 EST
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.
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