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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Cédric Le Goater" <clg@kaod.org>
Cc: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
	Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>,
	devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/4] leds: pca955x: add GPIO support
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2017 13:33:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170802113351.GA2528@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1501589349-5681-1-git-send-email-clg@kaod.org>

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Hi!

> The PCA955x family of chips are I2C LED blinkers whose pins not used
> to control LEDs can be used as general purpose I/Os (GPIOs).
> 
> The following adds support for device tree and Open Firmware to be
> able do define different operation modes for each pin. See bindings
> documentation for more details. The pca955x driver is then extended
> with a gpio_chip when pins are operating in GPIO mode.
> 
> The driver follows the scheme of the leds-pca9532 driver which behaves
> quite similarly.

Is there reason not to treat pca955x chip as a GPIO extender, and then
use leds-gpio on top?

									Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-08-02 11:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-01 12:09 [PATCH v2 0/4] leds: pca955x: add GPIO support Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-01 12:09 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] leds: pca955x: add device tree support Cédric Le Goater
     [not found]   ` <1501589349-5681-2-git-send-email-clg-Bxea+6Xhats@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-06 21:42     ` Jacek Anaszewski
2017-08-07  9:03       ` Cédric Le Goater
     [not found] ` <1501589349-5681-1-git-send-email-clg-Bxea+6Xhats@public.gmane.org>
2017-08-01 12:09   ` [PATCH v2 2/4] leds: pca955x: use devm_led_classdev_register Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-01 12:09   ` [PATCH v2 3/4] leds: pca955x: add GPIO support Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-06 21:42     ` Jacek Anaszewski
2017-08-07  9:09       ` Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-07 16:45         ` Jacek Anaszewski
2017-08-01 12:09   ` [PATCH v2 4/4] dt-bindings leds: add pca955x Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-02 11:33 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2017-08-02 11:57   ` [PATCH v2 0/4] leds: pca955x: add GPIO support Cédric Le Goater
2017-08-02 12:48     ` Pavel Machek

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