Re: [PATCH] leds: New PCEngines Alix LED driver using gpiointerface

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Apr 07 2011 - 17:59:22 EST


On Sun, 6 Mar 2011 16:51:25 +0000
kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> From: Ed Wildgoose <kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> This new driver replaces the old PCEngines Alix 2/3 LED driver with
> a new driver that controls the LEDs through the leds-gpio driver.
> The old driver accessed GPIOs directly, which created a conflict
> and prevented also loading the cs5535-gio driver to read other
> GPIOs on the Alix board. With this new driver, both are loaded
> and therefore it's possible to access both the LEDs and onboard GPIOs
>
> This driver is based on leds-net5501.c
> by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Additionally it relies on parts of the patch: 7f131cf3ed
> by: Daniel Mack <daniel@xxxxxxxx> to perform detection of the Alix board

As far as I can tell from looking at it, this driver maintains all the
same interfaces and behaviour as the old version. Am I right?

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