diff options
| author | Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com> | 2015-03-04 08:14:24 -0800 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com> | 2015-03-09 17:18:00 -0700 |
| commit | f6ad395bad57dcd15c6423715d15d91363a62ae8 (patch) | |
| tree | 66155c15c1c9f5d1fecd6a3e8b07e04be4f03d09 /Documentation/leds | |
| parent | 9c4a8e138cfe2cc7262d5d2224162add5632b546 (diff) | |
| download | linux-f6ad395bad57dcd15c6423715d15d91363a62ae8.tar.gz linux-f6ad395bad57dcd15c6423715d15d91363a62ae8.tar.bz2 linux-f6ad395bad57dcd15c6423715d15d91363a62ae8.zip | |
Documentation: leds: Add description of LED Flash class extension
The documentation being added contains overall description of the
LED Flash Class and the related sysfs attributes.
Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Kyungmin Park <kyungmin.park@samsung.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <cooloney@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/leds')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/leds/leds-class-flash.txt | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/leds/leds-class-flash.txt b/Documentation/leds/leds-class-flash.txt new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..19bb67355424 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/leds/leds-class-flash.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ + +Flash LED handling under Linux +============================== + +Some LED devices provide two modes - torch and flash. In the LED subsystem +those modes are supported by LED class (see Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt) +and LED Flash class respectively. The torch mode related features are enabled +by default and the flash ones only if a driver declares it by setting +LED_DEV_CAP_FLASH flag. + +In order to enable the support for flash LEDs CONFIG_LEDS_CLASS_FLASH symbol +must be defined in the kernel config. A LED Flash class driver must be +registered in the LED subsystem with led_classdev_flash_register function. + +Following sysfs attributes are exposed for controlling flash LED devices: +(see Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led-flash) + - flash_brightness + - max_flash_brightness + - flash_timeout + - max_flash_timeout + - flash_strobe + - flash_fault |