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| author | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2015-04-20 01:32:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2015-04-20 03:05:20 (GMT) |
| commit | 2c33ce009ca2389dbf0535d0672214d09738e35e (patch) | |
| tree | 6186a6458c3c160385d794a23eaf07c786a9e61b /Documentation/leds/leds-class-flash.txt | |
| parent | cec32a47010647e8b0603726ebb75b990a4057a4 (diff) | |
| parent | 09d51602cf84a1264946711dd4ea0dddbac599a1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-2c33ce009ca2389dbf0535d0672214d09738e35e.tar.xz | |
Merge Linus master into drm-next
The merge is clean, but the arm build fails afterwards,
due to API changes in the regulator tree.
I've included the patch into the merge to fix the build.
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/leds/leds-class-flash.txt b/Documentation/leds/leds-class-flash.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..19bb673 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/leds/leds-class-flash.txt @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ + +Flash LED handling under Linux +============================== + +Some LED devices provide two modes - torch and flash. In the LED subsystem +those modes are supported by LED class (see Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt) +and LED Flash class respectively. The torch mode related features are enabled +by default and the flash ones only if a driver declares it by setting +LED_DEV_CAP_FLASH flag. + +In order to enable the support for flash LEDs CONFIG_LEDS_CLASS_FLASH symbol +must be defined in the kernel config. A LED Flash class driver must be +registered in the LED subsystem with led_classdev_flash_register function. + +Following sysfs attributes are exposed for controlling flash LED devices: +(see Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led-flash) + - flash_brightness + - max_flash_brightness + - flash_timeout + - max_flash_timeout + - flash_strobe + - flash_fault |