Re: [PATCH v5 19/19] auxdisplay: ht16k33: Add LED support

[Marek Behún]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2021 11:57:59 +0200
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Instantiate a single LED based on the "led" subnode in DT.
> This allows the user to control display brightness and blinking (backed
> by hardware support) through the LED class API and triggers, and exposes
> the display color.  The LED will be named
> "auxdisplay:<color>:<function>".
> 
> When running in dot-matrix mode and if no "led" subnode is found, the
> driver falls back to the traditional backlight mode, to preserve
> backwards compatibility.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Marek Behún <kabel@xxxxxxxxxx>

BTW, this driver does not need to depend on OF, methinks.
The few instances of properties reading can be
easily rewritten to device_* functions (from include/linux/property.h).
The of_get_child_by_name() can become device_get_named_child_node().

Geert, what do you think?

Marek