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

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Message-ID: <20191008195511.GA18412@amd>
Date:   Tue, 8 Oct 2019 21:55:11 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Lee Jones <lee.jones@...aro.org>
Cc:     Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@...com>, jacek.anaszewski@...il.com,
        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 2019-10-03 12:40:28, Lee Jones wrote:
> 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.

That would make sense to me.

For the record, series is Tested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> .

Best regards,
									Pavel
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