Disabling a PWM (i.e. calling pwm_apply_state with .enabled = false) gives no guarantees what the PWM output does. It might freeze where it currently is, or go in a High-Z state or drive the active or inactive state, it might even continue to toggle. To ensure that the LED gets really disabled, don't disable the PWM even when .duty_cycle is zero. This fixes disabling a leds-pwm LED on i.MX28. The PWM on this SoC is one of those that freezes its output on disable, so if you disable an LED that is full on, it stays on. If you disable a LED with half brightness it goes off in 50% of the cases and full on in the other 50%. Reported-by: Rogan Dawes <rogan@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxx> Fixes: 41c42ff5dbe2 ("leds: simple driver for pwm driven LEDs") Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Hello, changes since (implicit) v1 sent with Message-Id: 20230922142304.1685985-1-u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx: - Use true instead of 1 to assign the boot .enabled. Thanks Fabio for that hint. - Add Reviewed-by: tag for Fabio In reply to the first iteration, Rogan wrote that "led_dat->pwmstate.enabled = true; also addresses the problem". BTW, this patch is similar to deaeeda2051f ("backlight: pwm_bl: Don't rely on a disabled PWM emiting inactive state") which fixed the same issue for PWM backlights. Best regards Uwe drivers/leds/leds-pwm.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-pwm.c b/drivers/leds/leds-pwm.c index 419b710984ab..2b3bf1353b70 100644 --- a/drivers/leds/leds-pwm.c +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-pwm.c @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ static int led_pwm_set(struct led_classdev *led_cdev, duty = led_dat->pwmstate.period - duty; led_dat->pwmstate.duty_cycle = duty; - led_dat->pwmstate.enabled = duty > 0; + led_dat->pwmstate.enabled = true; return pwm_apply_state(led_dat->pwm, &led_dat->pwmstate); } base-commit: 0bb80ecc33a8fb5a682236443c1e740d5c917d1d -- 2.40.1