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* ''default-on'' The led is switched on | * ''default-on'' The led is switched on | ||
* ''mmc0'' and ''mmc1'' will light the led whenever the corresponding MMC-Slot is being accessed. | * ''mmc0'' and ''mmc1'' will light the led whenever the corresponding MMC-Slot is being accessed. | ||
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Revision as of 16:52, 31 May 2011
To access a given LED from Userspace, the Kernel's sysfs provides a suitable interface. This can be found within /sys/class/leds on a running Board. These LEDs must be configured in the corresponding kernel's board file.
accessing an LED
The following commands have to be executed within the interface-directory (or that must be preceeding every file). You may want to change there by entering
$ cd /sys/class/leds
Within this file a directory for every LED exists. You can choose any and change here using cd.
Switching an LED manually
Each LED features a file brightness. This file contains or sets the current brightness of the led as a value from '0' (off) to '255' (full on). As most LEDs can't be dimmed, a value of '0' switches the LED off, any other value will switch the LED on. The following example will switch the LED off.
$ echo 0 > brightness
Using a kernel trigger to switch the LED
The Kernel provides a set of automatic triggers. These can be accessed using the file trigger. The following example will read the available triggers first, and set the mmc0-trigger afterwards.
$ cat trigger none nand-disk [heartbeat] backlight mmc0 mmc1 $ echo mmc0 > trigger
The triggers are usally self-explaining, but will described here shortly:
- none No trigger is currently activated, the led is switched manually only
- nand-disk The led will light whenever the NAND-Flash is accessed.
- heartbeat The led will pulse like a heart. The more load the system has, the faster will the pulse be.
- backlight The led can be controlled bia the kernels backlight-interface.
- default-on The led is switched on
- mmc0 and mmc1 will light the led whenever the corresponding MMC-Slot is being accessed.
The trigger in square brackets marks the currently active trigger.