PWM LED driver
authorDavid Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 12:21:22 +0000 (04:21 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 17:22:38 +0000 (09:22 -0800)
commitde5c9edee7a3cfdc6dd1a31c4794dc41ef3c70f9
tree2cc474aa124cd9efb8aa5b96072dd3fd2325148b
parent9a1e8eb1f0b76b5e72a2343ad881c81b08dd6410
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: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Haavard 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: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/leds/Kconfig
drivers/leds/Makefile
drivers/leds/leds-atmel-pwm.c [new file with mode: 0644]