Re: Camera LED on Librem 5 was Re: [PATCH] backlight: add led-backlight driver

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > > > This patch adds a led-backlight driver (led_bl), which is similar to
> > > > pwm_bl except the driver uses a LED class driver to adjust the
> > > > brightness in the HW. Multiple LEDs can be used for a single backlight.
> > > 
> > > Tested-by: Guido Günther <agx@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Thanks for testing!
> > 
> > I noticed blog post about using Librem 5 torch. Unfortunately, it used
> > very strange/non-standard interface, first using LED as a GPIO to
> > enable LED controller, then direct i2c access. That is not acceptable
> > interface for mainline, and it would be better not to advertise such
> > code, as it will likely become broken in future.
> 
> I agree, there's a driver for the lm3560 in media/ but how would one
> expose the torch part as a LED? It seems you hit something similar in
> 
>     https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/6/30

(Actually, I might have been wrong in that comment).

> I also couldn't find an in tree driver that registers a flashlight
> as a v4l subdev. Did i miss that?

You should get interface similar to this:

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PinePhone_(pine64-pinephone)

and the driver to enable that should already be in the mainline:

drivers/leds/leds-sgm3140.c

Best regards and good luck,
									Pavel
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