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Date:   Thu, 3 Oct 2019 12:40:28 +0100
From:   Lee Jones <lee.jones@linaro.org>
To:     Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@ti.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 0/5] Add a generic driver for LED-based backlight
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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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