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[194.223.186.215]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id jb11-20020a170903258b00b001e27557050dsm9061963plb.178.2024.04.09.09.05.19 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Tue, 09 Apr 2024 09:05:21 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:05:16 +0800 From: Kent Gibson To: Gunnar =?iso-8859-1?Q?Th=F6rnqvist?= Cc: Bartosz Golaszewski , Linus Walleij , linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org, Bartosz Golaszewski Subject: Re: [libgpiod][PATCH 2/2] tools: allow longer time periods Message-ID: <20240409160516.GA211845@rigel> References: <20240409093333.138408-1-brgl@bgdev.pl> <20240409093333.138408-3-brgl@bgdev.pl> <20240409125551.GA69328@rigel> <3f31c7bc-de8a-4552-ba48-4432b335f413@igl.se> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-gpio@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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.