Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Aug 2018 22:18:25 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [rfc] leds: add TI LMU backlight driver |
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Hi!
> > Here's preview of driver for TI LMU. It controls LEDs on Droid 4 > > smartphone, including keyboard and screen backlights. > > > > This adds backlight support for the following TI LMU > > chips: LM3532, LM3631, LM3632, LM3633, LM3695 and LM3697. > > > > Signed-off-by: Milo Kim <milo.kim@ti.com> > > [add LED subsystem support for keyboard backlight and rework DT > > binding according to Rob Herrings feedback] > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.co.uk> > > [remove backlight subsystem support for now] > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> > > > > --- > > > > Does it looks mostly reasonable? I guess it will need some > > s/BACKLIGHT/LEDS/ , and I'll need to remove my debugging hacks. > > > > I'd prefer this to be LED driver, first; I'll need to figure out what > > to do with backlight. I guess something like existing "backlight" > > trigger should do the trick. > > > > I looked at this driver from Milo before submitting a specific LM3697 driver.
Aha. I did not realize that was for same hardware... I should have cc-ed you, I guess.
> I do not like this driver. > I don't like that it smashes numerous devices into some structure with varying register maps. >
Can you elaborate? The chips are similar enough that single driver makes sense, and we certainly want to maintain one driver, not 6 drivers differing only in .. what exactly?
> Not only that but it appears that you just pulled this driver from a repo and posted it without clean up. >
a) No I did not, feel free to generate a diff.
b) Even if I did, why would that be a problem?
> If the devices share register maps and can be added to families I would prefer to do it that way. > > So if the LM3695 and LM3697 share the same features and register map they should be one driver > The LM363x series may be able to be a different driver.
Well all 6 chips this driver supports seem to be similar enough, so that single driver makes sense.
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