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leds: fix led_brightness_set when soft-blinking

Move led_stop_software_blink() code into led_brightness_set() to ensure
software blink timer is stopped and cleared when changing trigger.

Also use led_set_brightness() instead of calling
led_cdev->brightness_set() directly to keep led_cdev->brightness
consistent with current LED status.

This ensure proper cleaning when changing triggers, as without this fix
a LED may be turned off while leaving it's led_cdev->brightness = 1,
leading to an erratic software-blink behaviour.

The problem was easy to reproduce by changing the trigger from "timer"
to "oneshot".

Signed-off-by: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@canonical.com>

authored by

Fabio Baltieri and committed by
Bryan Wu
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drivers/leds/led-core.c
··· 24 24 LIST_HEAD(leds_list); 25 25 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(leds_list); 26 26 27 - static void led_stop_software_blink(struct led_classdev *led_cdev) 28 - { 29 - /* deactivate previous settings */ 30 - led_cdev->blink_delay_on = 0; 31 - led_cdev->blink_delay_off = 0; 32 - } 33 - 34 27 static void led_set_software_blink(struct led_classdev *led_cdev, 35 28 unsigned long delay_on, 36 29 unsigned long delay_off) ··· 106 113 void led_brightness_set(struct led_classdev *led_cdev, 107 114 enum led_brightness brightness) 108 115 { 109 - led_stop_software_blink(led_cdev); 110 - led_cdev->brightness_set(led_cdev, brightness); 116 + /* stop and clear soft-blink timer */ 117 + del_timer_sync(&led_cdev->blink_timer); 118 + led_cdev->blink_delay_on = 0; 119 + led_cdev->blink_delay_off = 0; 120 + 121 + led_set_brightness(led_cdev, brightness); 111 122 } 112 123 EXPORT_SYMBOL(led_brightness_set);