Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 Aug 2020 23:22:42 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Camera LED on Librem 5 was Re: [PATCH] backlight: add led-backlight driver |
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Hi!
> > > > This patch adds a led-backlight driver (led_bl), which is similar to > > > > pwm_bl except the driver uses a LED class driver to adjust the > > > > brightness in the HW. Multiple LEDs can be used for a single backlight. > > > > > > Tested-by: Guido Günther <agx@sigxcpu.org> > > > > Thanks for testing! > > > > I noticed blog post about using Librem 5 torch. Unfortunately, it used > > very strange/non-standard interface, first using LED as a GPIO to > > enable LED controller, then direct i2c access. That is not acceptable > > interface for mainline, and it would be better not to advertise such > > code, as it will likely become broken in future. > > I agree, there's a driver for the lm3560 in media/ but how would one > expose the torch part as a LED? It seems you hit something similar in > > https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/6/30
(Actually, I might have been wrong in that comment).
> I also couldn't find an in tree driver that registers a flashlight > as a v4l subdev. Did i miss that?
You should get interface similar to this:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/PINE64_PinePhone_(pine64-pinephone)
and the driver to enable that should already be in the mainline:
drivers/leds/leds-sgm3140.c
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