On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:49:32AM +0800, arden jay wrote:

Sorry, I'm confused about this.
If it is for backlight control, why it don't go through led_class?

PWMs are not limited to backlight. As Jean pointed out they can be used
for fans (or more generally motors) aswell. Have a look at
drivers/leds/leds-pwm.c, it is a user of this pwm API.

Sascha

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