linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] User-defined leds

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Message-ID: <20160805195809.GA28410@amd>
Date:	Fri, 5 Aug 2016 21:58:09 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	David Lechner <david@...hnology.com>
Cc:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@...sung.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Joel Becker <jlbec@...lplan.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] User-defined leds

On Fri 2016-08-05 14:54:33, David Lechner wrote:
> On 08/05/2016 02:51 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> >Could the device tree be used to bind LED driver to otherwise unused
> >gpio?
> 
> There is already a leds-gpio driver that does this.
> 
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-gpio.txt

Yeah, I know, that's why I suggested it :-).

What might be missing: simple way to attach leds-gpio driver to
hardware on non-devicetree machines, and perhaps teaching leds-gpio
special gpio value "no gpio" meaning ... that hardware is not actually
updated.

									Pavel
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