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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] gpio: Add driver for TI TPIC2810
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On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Andrew F. Davis <afd@ti.com> wrote:

>> I understand that it can also be used as a GPIO (and that it
>> is then nice to put leds-gpio on top of it) but then
>> I want a reference to the hardware that actually went ahead
>> and used this as a GPIO chip rather than using a proper
>> GPIO expander.
>
> These don't really have the traditional LED features (current control,
> HW blinking, etc), and all the use cases I've found treat them as GPO,
> including our Industrial Dev Kits (although they run them to test LEDs
> as well as the IO header):
>
> http://www.ti.com/tool/tmdsice3359
> http://www.ti.com/tool/tmdxidk437x
>
> And a couple more that I don't think have any public schematics yet.
>
> Like you said, they can still be used for LEDs with leds-gpio, as they
> don't have any LED specific features I figure this way we get both
> uses with one driver.

Fair enough, merged as you see.

Yours,
Linus Walleij

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