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From: mandeepsandhu.chd@gmail.com (Mandeep Sandhu)
Date: Fri, 20 May 2011 12:10:50 +0530
Subject: Putting artificial delays in a char driver
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Thanks Felix.

This looks better than putting a delay in the ISR's execution path.

I've implemented a simple fxn to be called by a timer after 10ms and
it looks fine..as in I can see the LED blink! :)

Thanks,
-mandeep

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Felix Varghese <felixv1986@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't say I have understood your scenario completely. Maybe you
> could turn your LED on when you want to (say in the ISR) and then
> start a kernel timer of sufficient duration. In the timer expiry
> handler, you could switch it off. By adjusting the duration, you could
> make sure that the LED stays on long enough to be visible.
>
> Regards,
> Felix.
>