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SubjectRe: [PATCH 4.4 16/34] led: core: Fix brightness setting when setting delay_off=0
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Hi Ben,

On 03/07/2018 04:32 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-03-02 at 09:51 +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>> 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me
>> know.
>>
>> ------------------
>>
>> From: Matthieu CASTET <matthieu.castet@parrot.com>
>>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit 2b83ff96f51d0b039c4561b9f95c824d7bddb85c ]
>>
>> With the current code, the following sequence won't work :
>> echo timer > trigger
>>
>> echo 0 > delay_off
>> * at this point we call
>> ** led_delay_off_store
>> ** led_blink_set
> [...]
>
> The commit message got cut truncated here, which resulted in addresses
> being omitted when it was sent out for review. The upstream commit
> message refers to a LED_BLINK_SW flag which is not used in 4.4. So
> this fix probably isn't needed, though I can't tell whether it does any
> harm.

We discussed it in [0]. This patch is not needed for 4.4 and what's
more more it is harmful. It introduces a bug, fixed in [1].

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/2/6/726
[1[ https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10253933/

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Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski

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