Re: [PATCH v2] leds: fix brightness changing when software blinking is active

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Jun 23 2015 - 12:52:03 EST


On Thu 2015-05-14 18:24:02, Stas Sergeev wrote:
>
> The following sequence:
> echo timer >/sys/class/leds/<name>/trigger
> echo 1 >/sys/class/leds/<name>/brightness
> should change the ON brightness for blinking.
> The function led_set_brightness() was mistakenly initiating the
> delayed blink stop procedure, which resulted in no blinking with
> the timer trigger still active.
>
> This patch fixes the problem by changing led_set_brightness()
> to not initiate the delayed blink stop when brightness is not 0.

Could we get this part of API documented? It is quite non-obvious... 0 clears the trigger,
other values do not, I thought it is a bug when I saw it...

Thanks,
Pavel
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