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* leds: core: Fix brightness setting upon hardware blinking enabledTony Makkiel2016-06-081-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* Documentation: leds: Add description of brightness setting APIJacek Anaszewski2016-01-041-0/+13
| | | | | | | | This patch adds description of the LED subsystem API for setting an LED brightness. Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com> Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
* Input: export LEDs as class devices in sysfsSamuel Thibault2015-06-111-3/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This change creates a new input handler called "leds" that exports LEDs on input devices as standard LED class devices in sysfs and allows controlling their state via sysfs or via any of the standard LED triggers. This allows to re-purpose and reassign LDEs on the keyboards to represent states other than the standard keyboard states (CapsLock, NumLock, etc). The old API of controlling input LEDs by writing into /dev/input/eventX devices is still present and will take precedence over accessing via LEDs subsystem (i.e. it may override state set by a trigger). If input device is "grabbed" then requests coming through LED subsystem will be ignored. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Tested-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
* Documentation: fix leds-class.txt duplicated wordBryan Wu2011-11-041-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | Fix a typo (duplicated word) in Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com> Acked-by: Richard Purdie <rchard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Documentation: consolidate leds files to leds/ subdirAntonio Ospite2011-04-041-0/+97
leds: move leds-class documentation under the leds/ subdir. Add also a leds/00-INDEX file describing the files under leds/ Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it> Acked-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>