Re: [PATCH 1/2] auxdisplay: HD44780 connected to I2C via PCF8574

From: Ralf Schlatterbeck
Date: Wed Jan 06 2021 - 05:38:17 EST


Miguel, Geert, thanks for the quick feedback.

On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 09:03:13AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> Unless I'm missing some little detail, there should be no need for this
> driver: this wiring (and alternative wirings) can just be expressed in DT.
> Examples (using 74HC595 SPI GPIO expanders) can be found in my
> renesas-overlays branch:

Thanks for the examples.
I've tried this and it really works!
It feels somewhat slower (I'm using user-defined characters) but that
probably doesn't warrant its own driver.

So I'll contribute a documentation change that adds an example of how
to use the I2C-enabled version of the display, this may be non-obvious
to others. I'll start a new thread for this, stay tuned...

@Miguel: Thanks for your detailed feedback on coding style, I'll use
this next time ;-)

Ralf
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