[PATCH 0/3] auxdisplay: 7 segment LED display

From: Chris Packham
Date: Sun Feb 25 2024 - 16:35:07 EST


This series adds a driver for a 7 segment LED display.

I'd like to get some feedback on how this could be extended to support >1
character. The driver as presented is sufficient for my hardware which only has
a single character display but I can see that for this to be generically useful
supporting more characters would be desireable.

Earlier I posted an idea that the characters could be represended by
sub-nodes[1] but there doesn't seem to be a way of having that and keeping the
convenience of using devm_gpiod_get_array() (unless I've missed something).

[1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2a8d19ee-b18b-4b7c-869f-7d601cea30b6@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

Chris Packham (3):
auxdisplay: Add 7 segment LED display driver
dt-bindings: auxdisplay: Add bindings for generic 7 segment LED
ARM: dts: marvell: Add 7 segment LED display on x530

.../auxdisplay/generic,gpio-7seg.yaml | 40 +++++
.../boot/dts/marvell/armada-385-atl-x530.dts | 13 +-
drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig | 7 +
drivers/auxdisplay/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/auxdisplay/seg-led.c | 152 ++++++++++++++++++
5 files changed, 212 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/auxdisplay/generic,gpio-7seg.yaml
create mode 100644 drivers/auxdisplay/seg-led.c

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