linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] cleanup LED documentation and make it match reality

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Date:   Mon, 3 Oct 2016 10:20:07 +0200
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:     j.anaszewski@...sung.com, linux-leds@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cleanup LED documentation and make it match reality

On Mon, Oct 03, 2016 at 10:10:50AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> sysfs-class-led fails to mention some important details. Also fix led
> vs LED and english.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....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@...ys.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.
> +		

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