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

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Wed Aug 11 2021 - 07:29:30 EST


Hi Marek,

On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 12:48 PM Marek Behún <kabel@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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>

Thanks!

> 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?

Sure, that can be done later, when an ACPI user appears?
The dependency on OF was pre-existing, and this series is already
at v5.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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