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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led index 5f67f7ab277b..2e24ac3bd7ef 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led @@ -3,9 +3,26 @@ Date: March 2006 KernelVersion: 2.6.17 Contact: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Description: - Set the brightness of the LED. Most LEDs don't - have hardware brightness support, so will just be turned on for - non-zero brightness settings. The value is between 0 and + Set the brightness of the LED. + + Most LEDs don't have hardware brightness support, so will + just be turned on for non-zero brightness settings. + + .. Note:: + + For multicolor LEDs, writing to this file will update all + LEDs within the group to a calculated percentage of what + each color LED intensity is set to. + + The percentage is calculated for each grouped LED via + the equation below:: + + led_brightness = brightness * multi_intensity/max_brightness + + For additional details please refer to + Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst. + + The value is between 0 and /sys/class/leds/<led>/max_brightness. Writing 0 to this file clears active trigger. @@ -13,6 +30,8 @@ Description: Writing non-zero to this file while trigger is active changes the top brightness trigger is going to use. + + What: /sys/class/leds/<led>/max_brightness Date: March 2006 KernelVersion: 2.6.17 @@ -47,10 +66,11 @@ Contact: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net> Description: Set the trigger for this LED. A trigger is a kernel based source of LED events. + You can change triggers in a similar manner to the way an IO scheduler is chosen. Trigger specific parameters can appear in /sys/class/leds/<led> once a given trigger is selected. For - their documentation see sysfs-class-led-trigger-*. + their documentation see `sysfs-class-led-trigger-*`. What: /sys/class/leds/<led>/inverted Date: January 2011 |