Re: 3-color led too bright

From: Sebastian Reichel
Date: Sat Jan 30 2016 - 19:24:16 EST


Hi Pavel,

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 09:07:50PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> The indicator 3-color LED in mainline kernel seem to be a bit too
> bright. .. more bright to look at comfortably. I believe it is also
> brighter than in original maemo... I believe I've seen note somewhere
> that hardware may allow too much current to the 3-color led damaging
> hardware... but I can't find the link now.

Safe current limits for the leds are configured in the DTS
(led-cur and max-cur) and can be checked in sysfs. I remember
testing the safety limits when I added them to DT, but the
driver has changed a bit since then.

-- Sebastian

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