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From: Oliver Hartkopp <socketcan@hartkopp.net>
To: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com>
Cc: Fabio Baltieri <fabio.baltieri@gmail.com>, linux-can@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] can: add tx/rx LED trigger support
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 17:41:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F96C9C3.1010505@hartkopp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F964C45.8010804@grandegger.com>

On 24.04.2012 08:46, Wolfgang Grandegger wrote:


>> - The blink timer is implemented as:
>>   * keep on for delay_time
>>   * turn off and retrigger the timer
>>   * turn back on after delay
>>   so that the hot-path only contains a switch-case, some checks and a mod_timer.
>>
>> This is tested on an x86 with a custom usb-can interface and on a flexcan-based
>> Freescale ARM board. I'll post some patch to implement support in other drivers
>> if anyone is interested into testing this one.
>>
>> Any comments?
> 
> I still think that the blinking support should go to the timer class to
> avoid duplicated code. Any good reason against? Apart from that the
> patches look good.


Hello Wolfgang,

what exactly do you mean with "timer class" ??

To me the current implementation looks like standard jiffie-based timer usage.

IMO hrtimers are not needed here - or what are you thinking of?

Regards,
Oliver

  reply	other threads:[~2012-04-24 15:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-23 21:02 [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] can: add tx/rx LED trigger support Fabio Baltieri
2012-04-23 21:02 ` [RFC PATCH v2 2/2] can: flexcan: add " Fabio Baltieri
2012-04-24  5:16 ` [RFC PATCH v2 1/2] can: add tx/rx " Oliver Hartkopp
2012-04-24 19:10   ` Fabio Baltieri
2012-04-24  6:46 ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2012-04-24 15:41   ` Oliver Hartkopp [this message]
2012-04-24 18:08     ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2012-04-24 18:57       ` Oliver Hartkopp
2012-04-25  7:05         ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2012-04-24 19:02   ` Fabio Baltieri
2012-04-25  7:26     ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2012-04-25  7:41       ` Marc Kleine-Budde
2012-04-25 10:04         ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2012-05-03 21:49           ` Fabio Baltieri
2012-05-04  7:03             ` Oliver Hartkopp
2012-05-04  7:30             ` Wolfgang Grandegger
2012-04-24  8:38 ` Kurt Van Dijck
2012-04-24 20:22   ` Fabio Baltieri
2012-04-25  7:50     ` Kurt Van Dijck
2012-04-24  8:45 ` Kurt Van Dijck
2012-04-24 20:34   ` Fabio Baltieri
2012-04-25  8:00     ` Kurt Van Dijck
2012-04-25 20:39       ` Fabio Baltieri
2012-04-26  8:21         ` Kurt Van Dijck

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