Re: Linux support for a 7 segment LED display

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > Right, but also with some additional properties, like
> > - type of the indicator (7, 14, etc segments, for now we have only
> > these two supported)
> > - use-dot (+1 led per each digit)
> > - characters (how many digits we have, so we need respective amount of GPIOs)
> >
> > With this it's indeed belongs directly to auxdisplay as we have almost
> > everything is done already there.
> 
> I've been playing about with this. I've got an auxdisplay driver that's 
> basically working (I won't bother spamming list with it yet). But I'm 
> wondering how I'd represent multiple characters. I kind of feel the 
> natural representation would be something like.
> 
>          led-7seg {
>                  compatible = "generic,7-segment-on-gpio";
>                  char-0 {
>                      segment-gpios = <&gpio 0 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW
>                                       &gpio 1 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW
>                                       &gpio 2 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW
>                                       &gpio 3 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW
>                                       &gpio 4 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW
>                                       &gpio 5 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW
>                                       &gpio 6 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
>                  };
>                  char-1 {
>                      segment-gpios = <&gpio 8 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW
>                                       &gpio 9 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW
>                                       &gpio 10 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW
>                                       &gpio 11 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW
>                                       &gpio 12 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW
>                                       &gpio 13 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW
>                                       &gpio 14 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>;
>                  };
>          };
> 
> But having those sub-nodes means I can't just use devm_gpiod_get_array() 
> instead I'd have to use device_for_each_child_node() and 
> devm_fwnode_gpiod_get_index(). Am I missing something? I could do away 
> with the sub-nodes and have properties like "segment-0-gpios", 
> "segment-1-gpios" but that feels awkward.

One solution would be to treat separate digits as separata devices
:-).

Other would be saying you don't have hardware for that, and make it
someone else's future problem.

Best regards,
								Pavel
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