[PATCH 2/2] leds/pwm: Don't disable pwm when setting brightness to 0

Uwe Kleine-König u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de
Thu Feb 12 01:47:53 PST 2015


On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:44:50AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> This fixes disabling the LED on i.MX28. The PWM hardware delays using
> the newly set pwm-config until the beginning of a new period. It's very
> likely that pwm_disable is called before the current period ends. In
> case the LED was on brightness=max before the LED stays on because in
> the disabled PWM block the period never ends.
> 
> Also only call pwm_enable only once in the probe call back and the
> matching pwm_disable in .remove(). Moreover the pwm is explicitly
> initialized to off.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at pengutronix.de>
sigh, I just noticed I did my compile test with LEDS_PWM off. This
fails to build, but as this patch (soft) depends on patch 1 anyhow, I
will resend once patch 1 is ok to go in. (I hope to reach this state!)

Best regards
Uwe


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