GPIO LEDs only know 2 states: ON or OFF and do not have PWM capabilities. However, the max brightness is reported as 255.
This patch sets the max brightness value of a GPIO controlled LED to 1. Tested on my PinePhone 1.2. Signed-off-by: Dylan Van Assche <[email protected]> --- v2 drops an obsolete change in include/linux/leds.h drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c b/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c index 93f5b1b60fde..0d66f19d71ba 100644 --- a/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c +++ b/drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c @@ -96,7 +96,8 @@ static int create_gpio_led(const struct gpio_led *template, } else { state = (template->default_state == LEDS_GPIO_DEFSTATE_ON); } - led_dat->cdev.brightness = state ? LED_FULL : LED_OFF; + led_dat->cdev.brightness = state ? LED_ON : LED_OFF; + led_dat->cdev.max_brightness = LED_ON; if (!template->retain_state_suspended) led_dat->cdev.flags |= LED_CORE_SUSPENDRESUME; if (template->panic_indicator) -- 2.26.2
