Hi,

On 06/06/16 13:44, Lothar Waßmann wrote:

'brightness' is usually an index into a table of duty_cycle values,
where the value at index 0 may well be non-zero
(tegra30-apalis-eval.dts and tegra30-colibri-eval-v3.dts are real-life
examples).
Thus brightness == 0 does not necessarily mean that the PWM output
will be inactive.
Check for 'duty_cycle == 0' rather than 'brightness == 0' to decide
whether to disable the PWM.

The binding doc does say:

  - brightness-levels: Array of distinct brightness levels. Typically these
      are in the range from 0 to 255, but any range starting at 0 will do.
      The actual brightness level (PWM duty cycle) will be interpolated
      from these values. 0 means a 0% duty cycle (darkest/off), while the
      last value in the array represents a 100% duty cycle (brightest).

 Tomi