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@@ -3,9 +3,26 @@ Date: March 2006
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
- non-zero brightness settings. The value is between 0 and
+ Set the brightness of the LED.
+
+ Most LEDs don't have hardware brightness support, so will
+ just be turned on for non-zero brightness settings.
+
+ .. Note::
+
+ For multicolor LEDs, writing to this file will update all
+ LEDs within the group to a calculated percentage of what
+ each color LED intensity is set to.
+
+ The percentage is calculated for each grouped LED via
+ the equation below::
+
+ led_brightness = brightness * multi_intensity/max_brightness
+
+ For additional details please refer to
+ Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst.
+
+ The value is between 0 and
/sys/class/leds/<led>/max_brightness.
Writing 0 to this file clears active trigger.
@@ -13,6 +30,8 @@ Description:
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
@@ -47,10 +66,11 @@ Contact: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Description:
Set the trigger for this LED. A trigger is a kernel based source
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
- their documentation see sysfs-class-led-trigger-*.
+ their documentation see `sysfs-class-led-trigger-*`.
What: /sys/class/leds/<led>/inverted
Date: January 2011