On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 09:13:22AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Fri 2019-08-09 17:52:46, Guru Das Srinagesh wrote:
> > From: Subbaraman Narayanamurthy <subba...@codeaurora.org>
> >
> > Commit 0013b23d66a2768f5babbb0ea9f03ab067a990d8 ("leds: disable triggers
> > on brightness set") removes the trigger on an LED class device when
> > brightness is set to 0. However, there are some LED class devices which
> > need the trigger not to be removed. In a use case like camera flash,
> > camera flash driver passes in a trigger device to LED class driver. If
> > the trigger is removed when the brightness is set to 0, this will affect
> > the clients using those triggers. Hence add a flag to always keep the
> > trigger even when brightness is set to 0.
>
> No.
>
> Yes, it would affect those clients. Don't do it, then. It is
> root-only operation.
I don't understand. The original commit broke userspace operations.
Shouldn't it be reverted, or fixed this way in order to have userspace
work properly again?
thanks,
greg k-h
