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| author | Tony Makkiel <tony.makkiel@daqri.com> | 2016-05-18 17:22:45 +0100 |
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| committer | Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com> | 2016-06-08 11:47:06 +0200 |
| commit | 7cfe749fad5158247282f2fee30773fd454029ab (patch) | |
| tree | 0d3ad9db7f04c077e7ce80daf10be1de4477fc80 /Documentation | |
| parent | af8c34ce6ae32addda3788d54a7e340cad22516b (diff) | |
| download | linux-7cfe749fad5158247282f2fee30773fd454029ab.tar.bz2 | |
leds: core: Fix brightness setting upon hardware blinking enabled
Commit 76931edd54f8 ("leds: fix brightness changing when software blinking
is active") changed the semantics of led_set_brightness() which according
to the documentation should disable blinking upon any brightness setting.
Moreover it made it different for soft blink case, where it was possible
to change blink brightness, and for hardware blink case, where setting
any brightness greater than 0 was ignored.
While the change itself is against the documentation claims, it was driven
also by the fact that timer trigger remained active after turning blinking
off. Fixing that would have required major refactoring in the led-core,
led-class, and led-triggers because of cyclic dependencies.
Finally, it has been decided that allowing for brightness change during
blinking is beneficial as it can be accomplished without disturbing
blink rhythm.
The change in brightness setting semantics will not affect existing
LED class drivers that implement blink_set op thanks to the LED_BLINK_SW
flag introduced by this patch. The flag state will be from now on checked
in led_set_brightness() which will allow to distinguish between software
and hardware blink mode. In the latter case the control will be passed
directly to the drivers which apply their semantics on brightness set,
which is disable the blinking in case of most such drivers. New drivers
will apply new semantics and just change the brightness while hardware
blinking is on, if possible.
The issue was smuggled by subsequent LED core improvements, which modified
the code that originally introduced the problem.
Fixes: f1e80c07416a ("leds: core: Add two new LED_BLINK_ flags")
Signed-off-by: Tony Makkiel <tony.makkiel@daqri.com>
Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt b/Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt index d406d98339b2..44f5e6bccd97 100644 --- a/Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt +++ b/Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt @@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ blink_set() function (see <linux/leds.h>). To set an LED to blinking, however, it is better to use the API function led_blink_set(), as it will check and implement software fallback if necessary. -To turn off blinking again, use the API function led_brightness_set() -as that will not just set the LED brightness but also stop any software +To turn off blinking, use the API function led_brightness_set() +with brightness value LED_OFF, which should stop any software timers that may have been required for blinking. The blink_set() function should choose a user friendly blinking value |