Re: [PATCH 4.19 014/639] leds: tlc591xx: update the maximum brightness

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Jan 27 2020 - 07:41:01 EST


On Sun 2020-01-26 10:18:11, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 12:18:26AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Fri 2020-01-24 10:23:04, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > From: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@xxxxxx>
> > >
> > > commit a2cafdfd8cf5ad8adda6c0ce44a59f46431edf02 upstream.
> > >
> > > The TLC chips actually offer 257 levels:
> > > - 0: led OFF
> > > - 1-255: Led dimmed is using a PWM. The duty cycle range from 0.4% to 99.6%
> > > - 256: led fully ON
> > >
> > > Fixes: e370d010a5fe ("leds: tlc591xx: Driver for the TI 8/16 Channel i2c LED driver")
> > > Signed-off-by: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@xxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Its a new feature, really and quite unusual one: 257 brightness levels
> > is not usual. It is theoretically safe, but...
> >
> > Lets not do that for -stable.
> >
> > (I'm a LED maintainer).
>
> Ok, now dropped from 4.19 and older, thanks!

Thank you!
Pavel
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