[PATCH 1/3] ARM: dts: sun4i: The blue led on the Mele A1000 is a power led

Hans de Goede hdegoede at redhat.com
Wed Jun 8 06:23:31 PDT 2016


Hi,

On 07-06-16 23:24, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 05, 2016 at 02:23:11PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> The blue led on the Mele A1000 is wired to light up as soon as the board
>> has powered (it will be on while the gpio is still in input / floating
>> mode), also its location on the top-set box clearly signals "power led".
>>
>> Until now we've been treating this as a generic usr function led, which
>> means that when you plug power into the top-set box, the power-led lights
>> and then turns off as soon as the kernel loads, which looks wrong.
>
> I'm not sure I understand the relationship between usr vs pwr led and
> the fact that it's disabled.

There is no relation, other then that pwr leds typically have
default-state = "on"; set whereas usr leds do not.

>> This renames the led from a1000:blue:usr to a1000:blue:pwr and marks
>> it as default on, fixing this.
>
> however, the default on might. Is it just a confusing commit log, or
> am I overlooking something?

Just a slightly confusing commit log.

Regards,

Hans



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