Re: [PATCH 0/4] auxdisplay: Add support for TM1637 7-segment display driver

[Andy Shevchenko]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 03:19:32PM +0600, Sirat wrote:

> Regarding Jean-François's series: I did check that out. It seems focused on
> the TM16xx variants that speak proper I2C or SPI (like TM1650/TM1638).

> The TM1637 has no slave address,

IIRC we have drivers for I2C peripherals that do not support the address.
Seems gpio-pca9570.c is the one I remember.

> and data is sent LSB-first which makes it
> incompatible with standard I2C adapters,

Does it? What prevents from reversing bits? (We have bitrev.h APIs)

> so I can't really piggyback on that driver's I2C backend.

Please, reconsider.

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And please, do not top-post!

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Andy Shevchenko