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authorPavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>2016-10-03 10:10:50 +0200
committerJacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>2016-11-22 12:07:03 +0100
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cleanup LED documentation and make it match reality
sysfs-class-led fails to mention some important details. Also fix led vs LED and english. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>
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@@ -4,16 +4,24 @@ KernelVersion: 2.6.17
Contact: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Description:
Set the brightness of the LED. Most LEDs don't
- have hardware brightness support so will just be turned on for
+ have hardware brightness support, so will just be turned on for
non-zero brightness settings. The value is between 0 and
/sys/class/leds/<led>/max_brightness.
+ Writing 0 to this file clears active trigger.
+
+ Writing non-zero to this file while trigger is active changes the
+ top brightness trigger is going to use.
+
What: /sys/class/leds/<led>/max_brightness
Date: March 2006
KernelVersion: 2.6.17
Contact: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Description:
- Maximum brightness level for this led, default is 255 (LED_FULL).
+ Maximum brightness level for this LED, default is 255 (LED_FULL).
+
+ If the LED does not support different brightness levels, this
+ should be 1.
What: /sys/class/leds/<led>/trigger
Date: March 2006
@@ -21,7 +29,7 @@ KernelVersion: 2.6.17
Contact: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Description:
Set the trigger for this LED. A trigger is a kernel based source
- of led events.
+ of LED events.
You can change triggers in a similar manner to the way an IO
scheduler is chosen. Trigger specific parameters can appear in
/sys/class/leds/<led> once a given trigger is selected. For