From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Guru Das Srinagesh <gurus@codeaurora.org>
Cc: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org,
Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>,
Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Subbaraman Narayanamurthy <subbaram@codeaurora.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add flag to keep trigger always
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2019 09:13:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190810071322.GA13760@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1565398367-11811-1-git-send-email-gurus@codeaurora.org>
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On Fri 2019-08-09 17:52:46, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote:
> From: Subbaraman Narayanamurthy <subbaram@codeaurora.org>
>
> Commit 0013b23d66a2768f5babbb0ea9f03ab067a990d8 ("leds: disable triggers
> on brightness set") removes the trigger on an LED class device when
> brightness is set to 0. However, there are some LED class devices which
> need the trigger not to be removed. In a use case like camera flash,
> camera flash driver passes in a trigger device to LED class driver. If
> the trigger is removed when the brightness is set to 0, this will affect
> the clients using those triggers. Hence add a flag to always keep the
> trigger even when brightness is set to 0.
No.
Yes, it would affect those clients. Don't do it, then. It is
root-only operation.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-10 7:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-10 0:52 [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add flag to keep trigger always Guru Das Srinagesh
2019-08-10 0:52 ` [PATCH 2/2] leds: triggers: Don't remove trigger if LED_KEEP_TRIGGER flag is set Guru Das Srinagesh
2019-08-10 7:13 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2019-09-30 13:39 ` [PATCH 1/2] leds: Add flag to keep trigger always Greg KH
2019-09-30 17:22 ` Pavel Machek
2019-09-30 17:27 ` Greg KH
2019-10-04 20:09 ` Guru Das Srinagesh
2019-10-08 7:47 ` Pavel Machek
2019-10-10 0:52 ` Guru Das Srinagesh
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