Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753160AbdC2SaF (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:30:05 -0400 Received: from mail-wr0-f195.google.com ([209.85.128.195]:34991 "EHLO mail-wr0-f195.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752333AbdC2SaD (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:30:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] leds: pca9532: Extend pca9532 device tree support To: Felix Brack , riku.voipio@iki.fi, rpurdie@rpsys.net, pavel@ucw.cz, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <725c338e-af4c-1332-6c27-462c2dc1b97f@gmail.com> Cc: f.brack@eets.ch From: Jacek Anaszewski Message-ID: <203b1577-b6d9-a3a6-4a7c-a9dac9325863@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2017 20:29:15 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2187 Lines: 57 Hi Felix, On 03/29/2017 04:26 PM, Felix Brack wrote: > Hello Jacek, > > On 08.02.2017 20:42, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: >> Hi Felix, >> >> On 02/08/2017 05:12 PM, Felix Brack wrote: >>> Hello Jacek, >>> >>> On 07.02.2017 21:45, Jacek Anaszewski wrote: >>>> Hi Felix, >>>> >>>> Thanks for the patch. >>>> >>>> On 02/07/2017 07:11 PM, Felix Brack wrote: >>>>> This patch extends the device tree support for the pca9532 allowing LEDs to blink, dim or even being unchanged, i.e. not being turned off during driver initialization. >>>> >>>> Isn't it possible to apply desired settings with existing LED subsystem >>>> brightness file, and delay_on/off files exposed by timer trigger? >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> Jacek Anaszewski >>>> >>> >>> This might be a misunderstanding. My patch is not meant to replace >>> anything for driving the LEDs once the kernel is fully loaded. The LED >>> subsystem offers quite a lot of possibilities to do this. >>> >>> My patch mainly deals with the 'default' state of the LEDs immediately >>> when the driver gets loaded. >>> Here is an example: I have a system with a LED named 'RUN' which is >>> turned on steady by U-Boot (indicating "system booting"). When the >>> PCA9532 driver loads this LED gets turned off due to initialization. >>> However I would like it remain lit until later a script will make that >>> 'RUN' LED blink (indicating "system running"). This script will of >>> course use the existing LED subsystem to do so. To keep the 'RUN' LED >>> lit I need the DT property 'default-state' being set to 'PCA9532_KEEP'. >> >> It looks like all you need is default-state property. >> I'd rather avoid exposing prescaler and pwm registers in DT. >> > > For the time being there seems to be no generic timer configuration by > means of the DT. I have therefore decided to remove the code dealing > with prescaler and pwm from my patch. This will prevent those registers > from being exposed to the DT. What will remain is the default-state. > > Should I send an updated version (v2) of this patch or would it be > better to send a 'new' patch? Please use current patch title and add v2 to the [PATCH] tag. -- Best regards, Jacek Anaszewski