Re: [PATCH linux dev-5.4] leds: pca955x: Add a software implementation of the PCA9552 chip
Andrew Jeffery
andrew at aj.id.au
Mon Jul 6 12:06:18 AEST 2020
On Tue, 23 Jun 2020, at 01:15, Eddie James wrote:
> There is an implementation of the PCA9552 on a PIC16F microcontroller.
> The I2C device addresses are different from the hardware PCA9552, so add
> a new compatible string and associated platform data to be able to probe
> this device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eddie James <eajames at linux.ibm.com>
I think we need to bikeshed the name a bit, and that might be best done
upstream. I feel like we should be putting "ibm" in the name to avoid the
haziness of "soft". Another company could do the same thing with different
choices for things like the device address parameters.
Andrew
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