RGB LED control (was Re: "advanced" LED controllers)

[Pavel Machek]

Ok, so I played with RGB LED a bit, and we have quite a gap in
documentation: what 50% brightness means is non-trivial and very
important in case we want to do smooth blinking and color transitions.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led
index 3646ec8..649d7a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ Description:
 		non-zero brightness settings. The value is between 0 and
 		/sys/class/leds/<led>/max_brightness.
 
+		If LED supports continuous brightness settings, 50% brightness
+		should correspond to 50% brightness perceived by human, in a similar
+		manner pixel brightness on monitor does (not 50% PWM).
+
+
 What:		/sys/class/leds/<led>/max_brightness
 Date:		March 2006
 KernelVersion:	2.6.17


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