Re: RGB LED control (was Re: "advanced" LED controllers)

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pavel,

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Ok, so I played with RGB LED a bit, and we have quite a gap in
> documentation: what 50% brightness means is non-trivial and very
> important in case we want to do smooth blinking and color transitions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led
> index 3646ec8..649d7a6 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led
> @@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ Description:
>                 non-zero brightness settings. The value is between 0 and
>                 /sys/class/leds/<led>/max_brightness.
>
> +               If LED supports continuous brightness settings, 50% brightness
> +               should correspond to 50% brightness perceived by human, in a similar
> +               manner pixel brightness on monitor does (not 50% PWM).

How many drivers do it right? How many don't?

For those that don't, perhaps we handle the conversion between perceived and
pwm in the core, e.g. by adding a new flag to led_classdev.flags to indicate
the need for conversion?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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