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+* Common leds properties.
+
+LED and flash LED devices provide the same basic functionality as current
+regulators, but extended with LED and flash LED specific features like
+blinking patterns, flash timeout, flash faults and external flash strobe mode.
+
+Many LED devices expose more than one current output that can be connected
+to one or more discrete LED component. Since the arrangement of connections
+can influence the way of the LED device initialization, the LED components
+have to be tightly coupled with the LED device binding. They are represented
+by child nodes of the parent LED device binding.
+
+Optional properties for child nodes:
+- led-sources : List of device current outputs the LED is connected to. The
+ outputs are identified by the numbers that must be defined
+ in the LED device binding documentation.
+- label : The label for this LED. If omitted, the label is taken from the node
+ name (excluding the unit address). It has to uniquely identify
+ a device, i.e. no other LED class device can be assigned the same
+ label.
+
+- default-state : The initial state of the LED. Valid values are "on", "off",
+ and "keep". If the LED is already on or off and the default-state property is
+ set the to same value, then no glitch should be produced where the LED
+ momentarily turns off (or on). The "keep" setting will keep the LED at
+ whatever its current state is, without producing a glitch. The default is
+ off if this property is not present.
+
+- linux,default-trigger : This parameter, if present, is a
+ string defining the trigger assigned to the LED. Current triggers are:
+ "backlight" - LED will act as a back-light, controlled by the framebuffer
+ system
+ "default-on" - LED will turn on (but for leds-gpio see "default-state"
+ property in Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/leds-gpio.txt)
+ "heartbeat" - LED "double" flashes at a load average based rate
+ "disk-activity" - LED indicates disk activity
+ "ide-disk" - LED indicates IDE disk activity (deprecated),
+ in new implementations use "disk-activity"
+ "timer" - LED flashes at a fixed, configurable rate
+
+- led-max-microamp : Maximum LED supply current in microamperes. This property
+ can be made mandatory for the board configurations
+ introducing a risk of hardware damage in case an excessive
+ current is set.
+ For flash LED controllers with configurable current this
+ property is mandatory for the LEDs in the non-flash modes
+ (e.g. torch or indicator).
+
+- panic-indicator : This property specifies that the LED should be used,
+ if at all possible, as a panic indicator.
+
+- trigger-sources : List of devices which should be used as a source triggering
+ this LED activity. Some LEDs can be related to a specific
+ device and should somehow indicate its state. E.g. USB 2.0
+ LED may react to device(s) in a USB 2.0 port(s).
+ Another common example is switch or router with multiple
+ Ethernet ports each of them having its own LED assigned
+ (assuming they are not hardwired). In such cases this
+ property should contain phandle(s) of related source
+ device(s).
+ In many cases LED can be related to more than one device
+ (e.g. one USB LED vs. multiple USB ports). Each source
+ should be represented by a node in the device tree and be
+ referenced by a phandle and a set of phandle arguments. A
+ length of arguments should be specified by the
+ #trigger-source-cells property in the source node.
+
+Required properties for flash LED child nodes:
+- flash-max-microamp : Maximum flash LED supply current in microamperes.
+- flash-max-timeout-us : Maximum timeout in microseconds after which the flash
+ LED is turned off.
+
+For controllers that have no configurable current the flash-max-microamp
+property can be omitted.
+For controllers that have no configurable timeout the flash-max-timeout-us
+property can be omitted.
+
+* Trigger source providers
+
+Each trigger source should be represented by a device tree node. It may be e.g.
+a USB port or an Ethernet device.
+
+Required properties for trigger source:
+- #trigger-source-cells : Number of cells in a source trigger. Typically 0 for
+ nodes of simple trigger sources (e.g. a specific USB
+ port).
+
+* Examples
+
+gpio-leds {
+ compatible = "gpio-leds";
+
+ system-status {
+ label = "Status";
+ linux,default-trigger = "heartbeat";
+ gpios = <&gpio0 0 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
+ };
+
+ usb {
+ gpios = <&gpio0 1 GPIO_ACTIVE_HIGH>;
+ trigger-sources = <&ohci_port1>, <&ehci_port1>;
+ };
+};
+
+max77693-led {
+ compatible = "maxim,max77693-led";
+
+ camera-flash {
+ label = "Flash";
+ led-sources = <0>, <1>;
+ led-max-microamp = <50000>;
+ flash-max-microamp = <320000>;
+ flash-max-timeout-us = <500000>;
+ };
+};