Re: [PATCH/RFC v10 03/19] DT: leds: Add led-sources property

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

On Tue 2015-01-20 11:29:16, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Jacek Anaszewski
> <j.anaszewski@samsung.com> wrote:
> > On 01/16/2015 04:52 PM, Jacek Anaszewski wrote:
> >>
> >> On 01/16/2015 02:48 PM, Rob Herring wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >>> You may want to add something like led-output-cnt or led-driver-cnt in
> >>> the parent so you know the max list size.
> >>
> >>
> >> Why should we need this? The number of current outputs exposed by the
> >> device is fixed and can be specified in a LED device bindings
> >> documentation.
> >>
> >
> > OK. The led-output-cnt property should be put in each sub-node, as the
> > number of the current outputs each LED can be connected to is variable.
> 
> Sorry, I meant this for the parent node meaning how many outputs the
> driver IC has. I did say maybe because you may always know this. It
> can make it easier to allocate memory for led-sources knowing the max
> size up front.

Umm. Not sure if that kind of "help" should go to the device
tree.
									Pavel
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