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Commit de5c9ede authored by David Brownell's avatar David Brownell Committed by Linus Torvalds
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PWM LED driver



This is a LED driver using the PWM on newer SOCs from Atmel; brightness is
controlled by changing the PWM duty cycle.  So for example if you've set up
two leds labeled "pwm0" and "pwm1":

	echo 0 > /sys/class/leds/pwm2/brightness	# off (0%)
	echo 80 > /sys/class/leds/pwm2/brightness
	echo 255 > /sys/class/leds/pwm2/brightness	# on (100%)

Note that "brightness" here isn't linear; maybe that should change.  Going
from 4 to 8 probably doubles perceived brightness, while 244 to 248 is
imperceptible.

This is mostly intended to be a simple example of PWM, although it's
realistic since LCD backlights are often driven with PWM to conserve
battery power (and offer brightness options).

Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHaavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: Andrew Victor <linux@maxim.org.za>
Cc: Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@atmel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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