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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
	Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>,
	linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
	platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LED devices & poll() for brightness attribute
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 13:25:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170222122557.GA3807@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170222090630.GB21558@pali>

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Hi!

> But this support is useful just for one single central userspace
> application which will control all leds in system other application
> which will change state by /sys/class/leds/ will de-synchronize that one
> central application.

Yes. Does it matter for some real use case?

> So I think new ABI is not sufficient and I would propose to add poll()
> support also for changes done by userspace, write() to attribute
> /sys/class/leds/.../brightness.

Not easily possible, as we have triggers, and this was discussed in
great great lengths before. Please go through that discussion.
								Pavel
									
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-22 12:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-22  9:06 LED devices & poll() for brightness attribute Pali Rohár
2017-02-22 12:25 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2017-02-22 12:39   ` Pali Rohár
2017-02-22 20:54     ` Pavel Machek
2017-02-22 21:16       ` Pali Rohár
2017-02-23 14:37         ` Pavel Machek
2017-02-23 14:48           ` Pali Rohár
2017-02-23 20:23             ` Pavel Machek
2017-02-23 20:44               ` Pali Rohár
2017-02-23 21:03                 ` Pavel Machek
2017-02-24  8:50                   ` Pali Rohár
2017-02-24  8:52                     ` Hans de Goede
2017-02-24  8:58                       ` Pali Rohár

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