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
