Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL for 4.14 065/110] led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0

[Sasha Levin]

On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 09:35:26PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>On Sat 2018-02-03 18:00:59, Sasha Levin wrote:
>> From: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 2b83ff96f51d0b039c4561b9f95c824d7bddb85c ]
>>
>> With the current code, the following sequence won't work :
>> echo timer > trigger
>>
>> echo 0 >  delay_off
>> * at this point we call
>> ** led_delay_off_store
>> ** led_blink_set
>> *** stop timer
>> ** led_blink_setup
>> ** led_set_software_blink
>> *** if !delay_on, led off
>> *** if !delay_off, set led_set_brightness_nosleep <--- LED_BLINK_SW is set but timer is stop
>> *** otherwise start timer/set LED_BLINK_SW flag
>>
>> echo xxx > brightness
>> * led_set_brightness
>> ** if LED_BLINK_SW
>> *** if brightness=0, led off
>> *** else apply brightness if next timer <--- timer is stop, and will never apply new setting
>> ** otherwise set led_set_brightness_nosleep
>>
>> To fix that, when we delete the timer, we should clear LED_BLINK_SW.
>
>Can you run the tests on the affected stable kernels? I have feeling
>that the problem described might not be present there.

Hm, I don't seem to have HW to test that out. Maybe someone else does?

-- 

Thanks,
Sasha