Re: [RFC PATCH] leds: add sgm3140 driver

From: Luca Weiss
Date: Sun Mar 08 2020 - 08:37:34 EST


Hi Pavel,

On Sonntag, 8. März 2020 13:11:32 CET Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Add a driver for the SGMICRO SGM3140 Buck/Boost Charge Pump LED driver.
> >
> > This device is controller by two GPIO lines, one for enabling the LED
> > and the second one for switching between torch and flash mode.
> >
> > The device will automatically switch to torch mode after being in flash
> > mode for about 250-300ms, so after that time the driver will turn the
> > LED off again automatically.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Luca Weiss <luca@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Cc: ~postmarketos/upstreaming@xxxxxxxxxxx, Luca Weiss <luca@xxxxxxxxx>,
> Jacek Anaszewski
>
> Strange entry in cc list...?

You mean the '~postmarketos/upstreaming@xxxxxxxxxxx' entry with a tilde and a
slash character? Both are valid characters in email addresses and you can view
the archive of that mailing list here:

https://lists.sr.ht/~postmarketos/upstreaming

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> And btw if you get the dt parts, and simple LED-only driver w/o the
> strobe functinality, you may be able to get it merged rather quickly.
>

I'm not really interested in having a torch-only driver merged if a full
driver with torch & strobe is already working. For the PinePhone we maintain a
separate kernel repository anyways so it doesn't matter much when exactly the
driver is going to get merged.

> Best regards,
>
Pavel

Regards
Luca