Turning off the blink_timer unconditionally before starting to blink make sure that a sequence like: OFF hardware blinking software blinking hardware blinking does not leave the software blinking timer active. Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite Reviewed-by: Johannes Berg Cc: Richard Purdie Cc: Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds ~øq