From 5054d39e327f76df022163a2ebd02e444c5d65f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Antonio Ospite Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:55:42 +0200 Subject: leds: LED driver for National Semiconductor LP3944 Funlight Chip LEDs driver for National Semiconductor LP3944 Funlight Chip http://www.national.com/pf/LP/LP3944.html This helper chip can drive up to 8 leds, with two programmable DIM modes; it could even be used as a gpio expander but this driver assumes it is used as a led controller. The DIM modes are used to set _blink_ patterns for leds, the pattern is specified supplying two parameters: - period: from 0s to 1.6s - duty cycle: percentage of the period the led is on, from 0 to 100 LP3944 can be found on Motorola A910 smartphone, where it drives the rgb leds, the camera flash light and the displays backlights. Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie --- Documentation/leds-lp3944.txt | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/leds-lp3944.txt (limited to 'Documentation/leds-lp3944.txt') diff --git a/Documentation/leds-lp3944.txt b/Documentation/leds-lp3944.txt new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c6eda18b15e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/leds-lp3944.txt @@ -0,0 +1,50 @@ +Kernel driver lp3944 +==================== + + * National Semiconductor LP3944 Fun-light Chip + Prefix: 'lp3944' + Addresses scanned: None (see the Notes section below) + Datasheet: Publicly available at the National Semiconductor website + http://www.national.com/pf/LP/LP3944.html + +Authors: + Antonio Ospite + + +Description +----------- +The LP3944 is a helper chip that can drive up to 8 leds, with two programmable +DIM modes; it could even be used as a gpio expander but this driver assumes it +is used as a led controller. + +The DIM modes are used to set _blink_ patterns for leds, the pattern is +specified supplying two parameters: + - period: from 0s to 1.6s + - duty cycle: percentage of the period the led is on, from 0 to 100 + +Setting a led in DIM0 or DIM1 mode makes it blink according to the pattern. +See the datasheet for details. + +LP3944 can be found on Motorola A910 smartphone, where it drives the rgb +leds, the camera flash light and the lcds power. + + +Notes +----- +The chip is used mainly in embedded contexts, so this driver expects it is +registered using the i2c_board_info mechanism. + +To register the chip at address 0x60 on adapter 0, set the platform data +according to include/linux/leds-lp3944.h, set the i2c board info: + + static struct i2c_board_info __initdata a910_i2c_board_info[] = { + { + I2C_BOARD_INFO("lp3944", 0x60), + .platform_data = &a910_lp3944_leds, + }, + }; + +and register it in the platform init function + + i2c_register_board_info(0, a910_i2c_board_info, + ARRAY_SIZE(a910_i2c_board_info)); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2