Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] leds: Adjust documentation of brightness sysfs node

[Lee Jones]

On Tue, 10 Mar 2026, Andy Shevchenko wrote:

> Adjust documentation of brightness sysfs node about accepted value range.
> The code accepts only decimal values. We may not relax that due to different
> readings for, e.g., octal 0100, which becomes 64 instead of currently parsed
> 100.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led
> index 0313b82644f2..39ac8453e670 100644
> --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led
> +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led
> @@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ Description:
>  		  For additional details please refer to
>  		  Documentation/leds/leds-class-multicolor.rst.
>  
> -		The value is between 0 and
> +		The decimal value is between 0 and

How about?

The value is between 0 and /sys/class/leds/<led>/max_brightness and is
represented by as a decimal.

>  		/sys/class/leds/<led>/max_brightness.
>  
>  		Writing 0 to this file clears active trigger.
> -- 
> 2.50.1
> 
> 

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Lee Jones [李琼斯]