[PATCH v3 0/4] leds: pca9532: Use hardware for blinking LEDs

[Bastien Curutchet]

Hi all,

This series aims to use hardware more often to blink LEDs.

The pca9532_set_blink() rejects asymmetric delays. So the core's software
fallback is almost always used when we want to blink a LED. Removing
this restriction revealed some conflicts between setting brightness and
blinking as the same PWM (PWM0) configuration is used by all LEDs for
both brightness and blinking.

Make use of the second available PWM (PWM1) to blink LEDs. This PWM1 was
reserved for beepers so hardware blinking is explicitly disabled if at
least one LED is used to drive a beeper to avoid conflicts.

Tested with PCA9532

Changes in v2:
 * Add defines to get rid of magic numbers
 * Replace every 'led' by 'LED'
 * Use dev_err() when returning errors
 * Remove unused struct pca9532_data from patch 2 to add it on patch 3
   where it's actually used

Changes in v3 (in PATCH 2/4):
 * Drop dev_err() messages for comments
 * Replace a -EINVAL with a -EBUSY

[v1] : https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240527125940.155260-1-bastien.curutchet@xxxxxxxxxxx/
[v2] : https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240617143910.154546-1-bastien.curutchet@xxxxxxxxxxx/

Bastien Curutchet (4):
  leds: pca9532: Use defines to select PWM instance
  leds: pca9532: Use PWM1 for hardware blinking
  leds: pca9532: Explicitly disable hardware blink when PWM1 is
    unavailable
  leds: pca9532: Change default blinking frequency to 1Hz

 drivers/leds/leds-pca9532.c | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

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