linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 0/5] Add a generic driver for LED-based backlight

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Date:   Thu, 3 Oct 2019 12:40:28 +0100
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
To:     Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@...com>
Cc:     jacek.anaszewski@...il.com, pavel@....cz, robh+dt@...nel.org,
        mark.rutland@....com, daniel.thompson@...aro.org, dmurphy@...com,
        linux-leds@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, tomi.valkeinen@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/5] Add a generic driver for LED-based backlight

On Thu, 03 Oct 2019, Jean-Jacques Hiblot wrote:

> This series aims to add a led-backlight driver, similar to pwm-backlight,
> but using a LED class device underneath.
> 
> A few years ago (2015), Tomi Valkeinen posted a series implementing a
> backlight driver on top of a LED device:
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7293991/
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7294001/
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7293981/
> 
> The discussion stopped because Tomi lacked the time to work on it.

[...]

>  .../bindings/leds/backlight/led-backlight.txt |  28 ++
>  drivers/leds/led-class.c                      |  98 ++++++-
>  drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig               |   7 +
>  drivers/video/backlight/Makefile              |   1 +
>  drivers/video/backlight/led_bl.c              | 260 ++++++++++++++++++
>  include/linux/leds.h                          |   6 +
>  6 files changed, 399 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/backlight/led-backlight.txt
>  create mode 100644 drivers/video/backlight/led_bl.c

How should this set be processed?  I'm happy to take it through
Backlight via an immutable branch and PR to be consumed by LED.

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]
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