led_set_flash_timeout(9)

✨ led_set_flash_timeout(9) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual 💖 you're reading the page for led_set_flash_timeout, and yes it is exactly as niche and exactly as iconic as it sounds. buckle up 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

led_set_flash_timeout — set flash LED timeout

like… that's the whole job. it sets the flash LED timeout. slay 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

int led_set_flash_timeout (struct led_classdev_flash *fled_cdev , u32
timeout );

three things happening here: an int coming back at you, a struct led_classdev_flash * going in, and a u32 going in. that's it. that's the vibe check and it passed ✅

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🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• fled_cdev — the flash LED you wanna set, fr. this is the flash LED, the main character of this function call 👑
• timeout — the flash timeout you're setting it to. the value. the number. the whole point 🫶

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Set the flash strobe timeout. ✨

that's literally it, no cap. one line of description, because sometimes the function is just that straightforward and honestly? we respect the confidence 💅

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🌈 RETURN 🌈

• 0 on success 🎉 — you did it, bestie, the timeout is set
• a negative error value on failure 😭 — it did not work, and it will be negative about it, lowkey

ngl, always check the return value. 0 is the happy path, negative means something went wrong and you should not just ignore it 🙈

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• Kernel file ./include/linux/led-class-flash.h — go read it, iykyk 📖
• led_classdev_flash_register_ext(9)
• led_classdev_flash_unregister(9)
• led_set_flash_strobe(9)
• led_get_flash_strobe(9)
• led_set_flash_brightness(9)
• led_update_flash_brightness(9)
• led_get_flash_fault(9)
• led_set_flash_duration(9)

the whole flash LED friend group honestly, they all hang out together 💖

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and that's the page!! this one lives in ./include/linux, dated October 2026, and it goes by led_set_flash_timeout(9) — periodt. go set some flash timeouts, bestie, you're gonna ate it 🦋💜🔥