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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt | 15 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt b/Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt index f1f7ec9f5cc5..836cb16d6f09 100644 --- a/Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt +++ b/Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt @@ -65,6 +65,21 @@ LED subsystem core exposes following API for setting brightness: blinking, returns -EBUSY if software blink fallback is enabled. +LED registration API +==================== + +A driver wanting to register a LED classdev for use by other drivers / +userspace needs to allocate and fill a led_classdev struct and then call +[devm_]led_classdev_register. If the non devm version is used the driver +must call led_classdev_unregister from its remove function before +free-ing the led_classdev struct. + +If the driver can detect hardware initiated brightness changes and thus +wants to have a brightness_hw_changed attribute then the LED_BRIGHT_HW_CHANGED +flag must be set in flags before registering. Calling +led_classdev_notify_brightness_hw_changed on a classdev not registered with +the LED_BRIGHT_HW_CHANGED flag is a bug and will trigger a WARN_ON. + Hardware accelerated blink of LEDs ================================== |