From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Lunn Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] backlight: add led-backlight driver Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 14:39:52 +0200 Message-ID: <20150825123952.GA18009@lunn.ch> References: <1440502442-19531-1-git-send-email-tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> <1440502442-19531-3-git-send-email-tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from vps0.lunn.ch ([178.209.37.122]:39310 "EHLO vps0.lunn.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751726AbbHYMrX (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Aug 2015 08:47:23 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1440502442-19531-3-git-send-email-tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> Sender: linux-leds-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org To: Tomi Valkeinen Cc: Jacek Anaszewski , Jingoo Han , Lee Jones , linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 02:34:01PM +0300, Tomi Valkeinen wrote: > This patch adds a led-backlight driver (led_bl), which is similar to > pwm_bl except the driver uses a LED class driver to adjust the > brightness in the HW. Shouldn't this be sending an event to drivers/leds/trigger/kedtrig-backlight.c Calling led_set_brightness() from outside of drivers/leds is pretty much unheard of. It is normal to have a trigger to do this. So why not use the exiting backlight trigger? Andrew