Messages in this thread Patch in this message |  | | Date | Mon, 3 Oct 2016 10:10:50 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | [PATCH] cleanup LED documentation and make it match reality |
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sysfs-class-led fails to mention some important details. Also fix led vs LED and english.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led @@ -4,16 +4,25 @@ KernelVersion: 2.6.17 Contact: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Description: Set the brightness of the LED. Most LEDs don't - have hardware brightness support so will just be turned on for + have hardware brightness support, so will just be turned on for non-zero brightness settings. The value is between 0 and /sys/class/leds/<led>/max_brightness. + Writing 0 to this file clears active trigger. + + Writing non-zero to this file while trigger is active changes the + top brightness trigger is going to use. + + What: /sys/class/leds/<led>/max_brightness Date: March 2006 KernelVersion: 2.6.17 Contact: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Description: - Maximum brightness level for this led, default is 255 (LED_FULL). + Maximum brightness level for this LED, default is 255 (LED_FULL). + + If the LED does not support different brightness levels, this + should be 1. What: /sys/class/leds/<led>/trigger Date: March 2006 @@ -21,7 +30,7 @@ KernelVersion: 2.6.17 Contact: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Description: Set the trigger for this LED. A trigger is a kernel based source - of led events. + of LED events. You can change triggers in a similar manner to the way an IO scheduler is chosen. Trigger specific parameters can appear in /sys/class/leds/<led> once a given trigger is selected. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature]
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