Re: [PATCH 4.19 014/639] leds: tlc591xx: update the maximum brightness

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 12:18:26AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2020-01-24 10:23:04, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@xxxxxx>
> > 
> > commit a2cafdfd8cf5ad8adda6c0ce44a59f46431edf02 upstream.
> > 
> > The TLC chips actually offer 257 levels:
> > - 0: led OFF
> > - 1-255: Led dimmed is using a PWM. The duty cycle range from 0.4% to 99.6%
> > - 256: led fully ON
> > 
> > Fixes: e370d010a5fe ("leds: tlc591xx: Driver for the TI 8/16 Channel i2c LED driver")
> > Signed-off-by: Jean-Jacques Hiblot <jjhiblot@xxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Its a new feature, really and quite unusual one: 257 brightness levels
> is not usual. It is theoretically safe, but...
> 
> Lets not do that for -stable.
> 
> (I'm a LED maintainer).

Ok, now dropped from 4.19 and older, thanks!

greg k-h