lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2018]   [Sep]   [11]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
SubjectRe: [PATCH v6 1/2] dt-bindings: leds: Add bindings for lm3697 driver
From
Date
On 09/11/2018 03:55 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>>>>>>>> And I think Jacek pointed out that the bindings references in this bindings
>>>>>>>> don't even exist.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am thinking we need to deprecate this MFD driver and consolidate these drivers
>>>>>>>> in the LED directory as we indicated before. I did not find any ti-lmu support
>>>>>>>> code.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ti-lmu common core code and then the LED children appending the feature differentiation.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Need some maintainer weigh in here.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hehe. I'm maintnainer. Fun.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I know. I want to see if there was any other opinion. Especially for the LED driver.
>>>>>>
>>>>> [...]
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a question - is this lm3697 LED controller a cell of some MFD
>>>>> device? Or is it a self-contained chip?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is a self contained chip. And the LM3697 only function is a LED driver.
>>>> It does not have any other special functions like the LM363X drivers for GPIO and Regulator support.
>>>
>>> This is an argument for merging it as a standalone LED class driver
>>> then. It is even more justifiable, taking into account uncertainties
>>> related to the proper way of adding the support for it to the existing
>>> MFD driver, whereas the code reuse would be the only advantage of having
>>> thus support in MFD subsystem.
>>
>> Does the argument carry over to the other devices?
>
> We really need something reasonable, that works for stand-alone LEDs,
> and also works for LEDs that are part of MFD when the hardware is similar.

I agree that LED drivers that have other functional blocks beyond driving a LED
chain belongs in the MFD space. The amount of code that is similar is very small.

And like I pointed out Droid 4 may be only one use case where it makes sense to combine
all the LED code into a central place. But most customers will just want a LED specific
driver to maintain.

>
>> Like the LM3632 (part of the ti-lmu) has flash and torch and no other special functions
>> so it would look like the lm3601x family with different register mappings.
>>
>> The LM3631 seems to also be just a LED driver with no extra functionality
>>
>> I could go buy an EVM and put together a driver for that device as well using the lm3601x as
>> reference.
>
> I do have hardware with lm3532. I can test patches, and I guess I can
> port driver easily if it is obvious how to do that.


I can get the LM3532 EVM. I wrote a similar driver for the original Droid 10 years ago.
Upstreaming was not a priority for that company.

Here is a reference to the LM3530 code from back in the day on Google OMAP kernel.
https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/omap/+/android-omap-3.0/drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c

Otherwise I can create the LM3532 driver as well and look at the LM3530

Dan

>
> Pavel
>


--
------------------
Dan Murphy

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2018-09-11 23:07    [W:0.069 / U:0.048 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site