Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] leds: blink resolution improvements

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Apr 27 2015 - 16:54:54 EST


Hi!

> The following patches improve the precision of led
> timer trigger and add the delay unit control.
> That allows to make PWM brightness control with timer
> trigger.

Are you sure that is good idea? Doing LED pwm with main cpu is quite harsh...

We already have "brightness" for... well... brightness level.

Would it make sense to have an option (Kconfig?) to do PWM using timer on hardware
that does not do hardware PWM?
Pavel
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