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From: Kent Gibson <warthog618@gmail.com>
To: "Gunnar Thörnqvist" <gunnar@igl.se>
Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bartosz.golaszewski@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [libgpiod][PATCH 2/2] tools: allow longer time periods
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:05:16 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240409160516.GA211845@rigel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3f31c7bc-de8a-4552-ba48-4432b335f413@igl.se>

On Tue, Apr 09, 2024 at 04:58:52PM +0200, Gunnar Thörnqvist wrote:
> Hi, Got a use case where a hold period is measured in more than seconds?
> Specifically for a get.:::
>
> I can see a large number of use cases where the time can be hours, days and
> weeks. In my case, pin 17 controls a relay that heats water when electricity
> is cheapest. It is ok to only have seconds as unit but the range must be
> larger. /Gunnar
>

I was asking specifically about the case for gpioget, where a long hold
period makes absolutely no sense.

Cheers,
Kent.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-04-09 16:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-04-09  9:33 [libgpiod][PATCH 0/2] gpio-tools: allow specifying longer time periods Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-04-09  9:33 ` [libgpiod][PATCH 1/2] build: fix configure error messages on missing functions Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-04-10  7:47   ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-04-09  9:33 ` [libgpiod][PATCH 2/2] tools: allow longer time periods Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-04-09 12:55   ` Kent Gibson
2024-04-09 15:59     ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-04-09 23:32       ` Kent Gibson
     [not found]     ` <3f31c7bc-de8a-4552-ba48-4432b335f413@igl.se>
2024-04-09 16:05       ` Kent Gibson [this message]
2024-04-09 17:24         ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-04-09 23:37           ` Kent Gibson
2024-04-10  7:53             ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2024-04-10 10:19               ` Kent Gibson
2024-04-09 23:52       ` Kent Gibson

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