Messages in this thread | | | From | Chris Packham <> | Subject | [PATCH 0/3] auxdisplay: 7 segment LED display | Date | Mon, 26 Feb 2024 10:34:20 +1300 |
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This series adds a driver for a 7 segment LED display.
I'd like to get some feedback on how this could be extended to support >1 character. The driver as presented is sufficient for my hardware which only has a single character display but I can see that for this to be generically useful supporting more characters would be desireable.
Earlier I posted an idea that the characters could be represended by sub-nodes[1] but there doesn't seem to be a way of having that and keeping the convenience of using devm_gpiod_get_array() (unless I've missed something).
[1] - https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/2a8d19ee-b18b-4b7c-869f-7d601cea30b6@alliedtelesis.co.nz/
Chris Packham (3): auxdisplay: Add 7 segment LED display driver dt-bindings: auxdisplay: Add bindings for generic 7 segment LED ARM: dts: marvell: Add 7 segment LED display on x530
.../auxdisplay/generic,gpio-7seg.yaml | 40 +++++ .../boot/dts/marvell/armada-385-atl-x530.dts | 13 +- drivers/auxdisplay/Kconfig | 7 + drivers/auxdisplay/Makefile | 1 + drivers/auxdisplay/seg-led.c | 152 ++++++++++++++++++ 5 files changed, 212 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/auxdisplay/generic,gpio-7seg.yaml create mode 100644 drivers/auxdisplay/seg-led.c
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