[PATCH v2 0/2] backlight: gpio: add support for multiple GPIOs for backlight control

From: Sudarshan Shetty

Date: Tue Jan 20 2026 - 07:50:44 EST


Hi all,

This patch extends the gpio-backlight driver and its Device Tree
bindings to support multiple GPIOs for controlling a single
backlight device.

Some panels require more than one GPIO to enable or disable the
backlight, and previously the driver only supported a single GPIO.
With this change:
- The driver now handles an array of GPIOs and updates all of them
based on brightness state.
- The Device Tree binding has been updated to allow specifying one
or more GPIOs for a gpio-backlight node.

This approach avoids describing multiple backlight devices in DT for a
single panel.

Changes in v2:
- Used devm_gpiod_get_array() and struct gpio_descs
- Replaced per-index GPIO handling with descriptor array access
- Moved the bitmap allocation to probe using devm_kcalloc().
- Updated commit messages.

Thanks,
Anusha

Sudarshan Shetty (2):
dt-bindings: backlight: gpio-backlight: allow multiple GPIOs
backlight: gpio: add support for multiple GPIOs for backlight control

.../leds/backlight/gpio-backlight.yaml | 24 ++++++-
drivers/video/backlight/gpio_backlight.c | 66 +++++++++++++------
2 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

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