[linux-sunxi] [PATCH 4/6] ARM: dts: sun9i: Add GPIO LEDs for A80 Optimus board

Maxime Ripard maxime.ripard at free-electrons.com
Tue Oct 28 13:27:08 PDT 2014


On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:04:28PM +0100, Koen Kooi wrote:
> 
> > Op 28 okt. 2014, om 10:50 heeft Chen-Yu Tsai <wens at csie.org> het volgende geschreven:
> > 
> > The A80 Optimus board has 3 usable LEDs that are controlled via GPIO.
> > 
> > This patch adds support for 2 of them which are driver by GPIOs in the
> > main pin controller. The remaining one uses GPIO from the R_PIO
> > controller, which we don't support yet.
> 
> Out of curiousity, are those LEDs labeled and if so, would it make
> sense to assign default triggers matching the labels to them? As a
> personal preference I tend to have one of the LEDs use the
> 'heartbeat' trigger so I can see that it's alive.

I'm not a huge fan of forcing this kind of policy decision down to the
users, especially for such "generic" boards that don't have any
labeled LEDs.

I feel like it's a userspace decision, but I don't have a strong
opinion on this :)

Maxime

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