diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led
index 491cdee..5f67f7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led
@@ -23,6 +23,23 @@ Description:
 		If the LED does not support different brightness levels, this
 		should be 1.
 
+What:		/sys/class/leds/<led>/brightness_hw_changed
+Date:		January 2017
+KernelVersion:	4.11
+Description:
+		Last hardware set brightness level for this LED. Some LEDs
+		may be changed autonomously by hardware/firmware. Only LEDs
+		where this happens and the driver can detect this, will have
+		this file.
+
+		This file supports poll() to detect when the hardware changes
+		the brightness.
+
+		Reading this file will return the last brightness level set
+		by the hardware, this may be different from the current
+		brightness. Reading this file when no hw brightness change
+		event has happened will return an ENODATA error.
+
 What:		/sys/class/leds/<led>/trigger
 Date:		March 2006
 KernelVersion:	2.6.17
diff --git a/Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt b/Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt
index f1f7ec9..836cb16 100644
--- a/Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt
+++ b/Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt
@@ -65,6 +65,21 @@ LED subsystem core exposes following API for setting brightness:
 		blinking, returns -EBUSY if software blink fallback is enabled.
 
 
+LED registration API
+====================
+
+A driver wanting to register a LED classdev for use by other drivers /
+userspace needs to allocate and fill a led_classdev struct and then call
+[devm_]led_classdev_register. If the non devm version is used the driver
+must call led_classdev_unregister from its remove function before
+free-ing the led_classdev struct.
+
+If the driver can detect hardware initiated brightness changes and thus
+wants to have a brightness_hw_changed attribute then the LED_BRIGHT_HW_CHANGED
+flag must be set in flags before registering. Calling
+led_classdev_notify_brightness_hw_changed on a classdev not registered with
+the LED_BRIGHT_HW_CHANGED flag is a bug and will trigger a WARN_ON.
+
 Hardware accelerated blink of LEDs
 ==================================
 
diff --git a/drivers/leds/Kconfig b/drivers/leds/Kconfig
index c621cbb..275f467 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/leds/Kconfig
@@ -29,6 +29,15 @@ config LEDS_CLASS_FLASH
 	  for the flash related features of a LED device. It can be built
 	  as a module.
 
+config LEDS_BRIGHTNESS_HW_CHANGED
+	bool "LED Class brightness_hw_changed attribute support"
+	depends on LEDS_CLASS
+	help
+	  This option enables support for the brightness_hw_changed attribute
+	  for led sysfs class devices under /sys/class/leds.
+
+	  See Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-led for details.
+
 comment "LED drivers"
 
 config LEDS_88PM860X
diff --git a/drivers/leds/led-class.c b/drivers/leds/led-class.c
index 326ee6e..f2b0a80 100644
--- a/drivers/leds/led-class.c
+++ b/drivers/leds/led-class.c
@@ -103,6 +103,68 @@ static const struct attribute_group *led_groups[] = {
 	NULL,
 };
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_LEDS_BRIGHTNESS_HW_CHANGED
+static ssize_t brightness_hw_changed_show(struct device *dev,
+		struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
+{
+	struct led_classdev *led_cdev = dev_get_drvdata(dev);
+
+	if (led_cdev->brightness_hw_changed == -1)
+		return -ENODATA;
+
+	return sprintf(buf, "%u\n", led_cdev->brightness_hw_changed);
+}
+
+static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(brightness_hw_changed);
+
+static int led_add_brightness_hw_changed(struct led_classdev *led_cdev)
+{
+	struct device *dev = led_cdev->dev;
+	int ret;
+
+	ret = device_create_file(dev, &dev_attr_brightness_hw_changed);
+	if (ret) {
+		dev_err(dev, "Error creating brightness_hw_changed\n");
+		return ret;
+	}
+
+	led_cdev->brightness_hw_changed_kn =
+		sysfs_get_dirent(dev->kobj.sd, "brightness_hw_changed");
+	if (!led_cdev->brightness_hw_changed_kn) {
+		dev_err(dev, "Error getting brightness_hw_changed kn\n");
+		device_remove_file(dev, &dev_attr_brightness_hw_changed);
+		return -ENXIO;
+	}
+
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void led_remove_brightness_hw_changed(struct led_classdev *led_cdev)
+{
+	sysfs_put(led_cdev->brightness_hw_changed_kn);
+	device_remove_file(led_cdev->dev, &dev_attr_brightness_hw_changed);
+}
+
+void led_classdev_notify_brightness_hw_changed(struct led_classdev *led_cdev,
+					       enum led_brightness brightness)
+{
+	if (WARN_ON(!led_cdev->brightness_hw_changed_kn))
+		return;
+
+	led_cdev->brightness_hw_changed = brightness;
+	sysfs_notify_dirent(led_cdev->brightness_hw_changed_kn);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(led_classdev_notify_brightness_hw_changed);
+#else
+static int led_add_brightness_hw_changed(struct led_classdev *led_cdev)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+static void led_remove_brightness_hw_changed(struct led_classdev *led_cdev)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
 /**
  * led_classdev_suspend - suspend an led_classdev.
  * @led_cdev: the led_classdev to suspend.
@@ -204,10 +266,21 @@ int led_classdev_register(struct device *parent, struct led_classdev *led_cdev)
 		dev_warn(parent, "Led %s renamed to %s due to name collision",
 				led_cdev->name, dev_name(led_cdev->dev));
 
+	if (led_cdev->flags & LED_BRIGHT_HW_CHANGED) {
+		ret = led_add_brightness_hw_changed(led_cdev);
+		if (ret) {
+			device_unregister(led_cdev->dev);
+			return ret;
+		}
+	}
+
 	led_cdev->work_flags = 0;
 #ifdef CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGERS
 	init_rwsem(&led_cdev->trigger_lock);
 #endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_LEDS_BRIGHTNESS_HW_CHANGED
+	led_cdev->brightness_hw_changed = -1;
+#endif
 	mutex_init(&led_cdev->led_access);
 	/* add to the list of leds */
 	down_write(&leds_list_lock);
@@ -256,6 +329,9 @@ void led_classdev_unregister(struct led_classdev *led_cdev)
 
 	flush_work(&led_cdev->set_brightness_work);
 
+	if (led_cdev->flags & LED_BRIGHT_HW_CHANGED)
+		led_remove_brightness_hw_changed(led_cdev);
+
 	device_unregister(led_cdev->dev);
 
 	down_write(&leds_list_lock);
diff --git a/include/linux/leds.h b/include/linux/leds.h
index 569cb53..c771153 100644
--- a/include/linux/leds.h
+++ b/include/linux/leds.h
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
 #define __LINUX_LEDS_H_INCLUDED
 
 #include <linux/device.h>
+#include <linux/kernfs.h>
 #include <linux/list.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/rwsem.h>
@@ -46,6 +47,7 @@ struct led_classdev {
 #define LED_DEV_CAP_FLASH	(1 << 18)
 #define LED_HW_PLUGGABLE	(1 << 19)
 #define LED_PANIC_INDICATOR	(1 << 20)
+#define LED_BRIGHT_HW_CHANGED	(1 << 21)
 
 	/* set_brightness_work / blink_timer flags, atomic, private. */
 	unsigned long		work_flags;
@@ -110,6 +112,11 @@ struct led_classdev {
 	bool			activated;
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_LEDS_BRIGHTNESS_HW_CHANGED
+	int			 brightness_hw_changed;
+	struct kernfs_node	*brightness_hw_changed_kn;
+#endif
+
 	/* Ensures consistent access to the LED Flash Class device */
 	struct mutex		led_access;
 };
@@ -422,4 +429,12 @@ static inline void ledtrig_cpu(enum cpu_led_event evt)
 }
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_LEDS_BRIGHTNESS_HW_CHANGED
+extern void led_classdev_notify_brightness_hw_changed(
+	struct led_classdev *led_cdev, enum led_brightness brightness);
+#else
+static inline void led_classdev_notify_brightness_hw_changed(
+	struct led_classdev *led_cdev, enum led_brightness brightness) { }
+#endif
+
 #endif		/* __LINUX_LEDS_H_INCLUDED */
