This series aims to add a led-backlight driver, similar to pwm-backlight, but using a LED class device underneath.
A few years ago (2015), Tomi Valkeinen posted a series implementing a backlight driver on top of a LED device: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7293991/ https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7294001/ https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7293981/
The discussion stopped because Tomi lacked the time to work on it.
changes in v6: - trim the list of included headers - remove useless definition of BKL_FULL_BRIGHTNESS
changes in v5: - removed LED brightness scaling - disable sysfs the interface of the LEDs when used by the backlight device
changes in v4: - fix dev_err() messages and commit logs following the advices of Pavel - cosmetic changes (indents, getting rid of "? 1 : 0" in led_match_led_node())
changes in v3: - dt binding: don't limit the brightness range to 0-255. Use the range of the underlying LEDs. as a side-effect, all LEDs must now have the same range - driver: Adapt to dt binding update. - driver: rework probe() for clarity and remove the remaining goto.
changes in v2: - handle more than one LED. - don't make the backlight device a child of the LED controller. - make brightness-levels and default-brightness-level optional - removed the option to use a GPIO enable. - removed the option to use a regulator. It should be handled by the LED core - don't make any change to the LED core (not needed anymore)
Jean-Jacques Hiblot (2): leds: Add managed API to get a LED from a device driver dt-bindings: backlight: Add led-backlight binding
Tomi Valkeinen (2): leds: Add of_led_get() and led_put() backlight: add led-backlight driver
.../bindings/leds/backlight/led-backlight.txt | 28 ++ drivers/leds/led-class.c | 92 +++++++ drivers/video/backlight/Kconfig | 7 + drivers/video/backlight/Makefile | 1 + drivers/video/backlight/led_bl.c | 260 ++++++++++++++++++ include/linux/leds.h | 6 + 6 files changed, 394 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/backlight/led-backlight.txt create mode 100644 drivers/video/backlight/led_bl.c