Re: [PATCH 2/2] dt-binding: leds: Document leds-multi-gpio bindings

["Vesa Jääskeläinen" <dachaac@gmail.com>]

Hi,

See below.

On 24.3.2021 9.56, Hermes Zhang wrote:
> From: Hermes Zhang <chenhuiz@axis.com>
> 
> Document the device tree bindings of the multiple GPIOs LED driver
> Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-multi-gpio.yaml.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hermes Zhang <chenhuiz@axis.com>
> ---
>   .../bindings/leds/leds-multi-gpio.yaml        | 50 +++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 50 insertions(+)
>   create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-multi-gpio.yaml
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-multi-gpio.yaml b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-multi-gpio.yaml
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..6f2b47487b90
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-multi-gpio.yaml
> @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
> +# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +%YAML 1.2
> +---
> +$id: http://devicetree.org/schemas/leds/leds-multi-gpio.yaml#
> +$schema: http://devicetree.org/meta-schemas/core.yaml#
> +
> +title: Multiple GPIOs LED driver
> +
> +maintainers:
> +  - Hermes Zhang <chenhuiz@axis.com>
> +
> +description:
> +  This will support some LED made of multiple GPIOs and the brightness of the
> +  LED could map to different states of the GPIOs.
> +
> +properties:
> +  compatible:
> +    const: multi-gpio-led
> +
> +  led-gpios:
> +    description: Array of one or more GPIOs pins used to control the LED.
> +    minItems: 1
> +    maxItems: 8  # Should be enough

We also have a case with multi color LEDs (which is probably a more 
common than multi intensity LED. So I am wondering how these both could 
co-exist.

From: 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-gpio.yaml?h=v5.12-rc4#n58

         led-0 {
             gpios = <&mcu_pio 0 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
             linux,default-trigger = "disk-activity";
             function = LED_FUNCTION_DISK;
         };

Now 'gpios' (and in LED context) and 'led-gpios' is very close to each 
other and could easily be confused.

Perhaps this could be something like:

intensity-gpios = ...

or even simplified then just to gpios = <...>

> +
> +  led-states:
> +    description: |
> +      The array list the supported states here which will map to brightness
> +      from 0 to maximum. Each item in the array will present all the GPIOs
> +      value by bit.
> +    $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/uint8-array
> +    minItems: 1
> +    maxItems: 16 # Should be enough
> +
> +required:
> +  - compatible
> +  - led-gpios
> +  - led-states
> +
> +additionalProperties: false
> +
> +examples:
> +  - |
> +    gpios-led {
> +      compatible = "multi-gpio-led";
> +
> +      led-gpios = <&gpio0 23 0x1>,
> +                  <&gpio0 24 0x1>;
> +      led-states = /bits/ 8 <0x00 0x01 0x02 0x03>;
> +    };
> +...
> 

From: 
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-lp55xx.yaml?h=v5.12-rc4#n196

There is example of multi color LED configuration. In example below I 
used two-color LED with red and green as an example (which what we seem 
to have most in use).

Then if try to combine these into something like:

# Multi color LED with single GPIO line per color
multi-led@2 {
   compatible = "gpio-leds";
   color = <LED_COLOR_ID_MULTICOLOR>;
   led@0 {
     color = <LED_COLOR_ID_GREEN>;
     gpios = <&mcu_pio 0 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
   };

   led@1 {
     color = <LED_COLOR_ID_RED>;
     gpios = <&mcu_pio 1 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
   };
};

# And with intensity GPIOs:
multi-led@2 {
   compatible = "gpio-leds";
   color = <LED_COLOR_ID_MULTICOLOR>;

   led@0 {
     color = <LED_COLOR_ID_GREEN>;
     gpios = <&gpio0 23 0x1>,
             <&gpio0 24 0x1>;
     ... see below
   };

   led@1 {
     color = <LED_COLOR_ID_RED>;
     gpios = <&gpio0 25 0x1>,
             <&gpio0 26 0x1>;
     ... see below
   };
};

# And then single GPIO with intensity GPIOs:
led@2 {
   compatible = "gpio-leds";
   gpios = <&gpio0 23 0x1>,
           <&gpio0 24 0x1>;
   gpios-brightness-levels = <0 1 2 3>
};

I changed 'led-states' to 'gpios-brightness-levels' as it describe more 
that this is about brightness and not some other state information.

How would this sound?

Thanks,
Vesa Jääskeläinen