[PATCH v3 2/2] Add documentation for tca6507 devicetree bindings.

Stephen Warren swarren at wwwdotorg.org
Thu Nov 15 06:26:39 EST 2012


On 11/13/2012 06:05 PM, Bryan Wu wrote:
> It looks fine to me, but I need a DT maintainer's ack. Stephen, could
> you help on this. I will merge this patch via my tree.

I'm not actually a DT maintainer; I CC'd Grant and Rob. Marek probably
wants to repost the whole patch to them. Comments below.

>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/tca6507.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/tca6507.txt
...
>> +LED sub-node properties:
...
>> +  string defining the trigger assigned to the LED.  Current triggers are:
>> +    "backlight" - LED will act as a back-light, controlled by the framebuffer
>> +                 system
>> +    "default-on" - LED will turn on
>> +    "heartbeat" - LED "double" flashes at a load average based rate
>> +    "ide-disk" - LED indicates disk activity
>> +    "timer" - LED flashes at a fixed, configurable rate

It would be useful to point at a single canonical document that
describes the triggers, rather than duplicating the list into every binding.

Aside from that, I think this looks reasonable.

Oh, looking at Documentation/devicetree/bindings/gpio/led.txt, should a
default-state property be supported?


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