On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Andrew F. Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Add driver for TI TPIC2810 8-Bit LED Driver with I2C Interface. > > The TPIC2810 has 8 open-drain outputs that can but used to drive > LEDs and other low-side switched resistive loads. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <[email protected]> > --- > Changes from v1: > - Added OF match table at Javier Martinez Canillas request So the TI datasheet says: "8 bit LED driver with I2C interface" So it is *not* "general purpose input/output" (GPIO). It is special purpose LED drive output-only circuit. So why can it not have a driver directly in drivers/leds/*? 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. Yours, Linus Walleij
