Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: leds: Mention GPIO triggers

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Sep 14 2023 - 04:40:58 EST


On Wed, Sep 13, 2023 at 3:34 PM Rob Herring <robh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 03:44:30PM +0200, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > We reuse the trigger-sources phandle to just point to
> > GPIOs we may want to use as LED triggers.
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > gpio: gpio@0 {
> > compatible "my-gpio";
> > gpio-controller;
> > #gpio-cells = <2>;
> > interrupt-controller;
> > #interrupt-cells = <2>;
> > #trigger-source-cells = <2>;
>
> BTW, this is not documented for any GPIO binding. If we want to specify
> the cell size, then it has to be added to every GPIO controller binding.
> If not, we then need to reference gpio.yaml in every GPIO controller
> binding (along with unevaluatedProperties). Doesn't have to be done for
> this patch to go in though.

Yeah I mean this trigger-sources = <...>; one-size-fits-all is a bit
weird in a way.

My other idea was to simply add trigger-gpios to the normal way
and be done with it, but now the trigger binding has this weird
thing.

Would trigger-gpios be better?

Yours,
Linus Walleij