Re: [PATCH v7 2/2] trigger: ledtrig-tty: add additional modes

[Florian Eckert <fe@dev.tdt.de>]

Hello Uwe,

>> +		  LED on if line is high.
>> +		* RNG:   DCE has detected an incoming ring signal.
>> +		  LED on if line is high.
> 
> Something I (still) don't like about this approach is that you cannot
> make the LED flash on TX only (or CAR and DSR). Something like:
> 
> 	led=/sys/class/leds/<led>/
> 	echo 1 > $led/TX
> 	echo 0 > $led/RX
> 	echo 1 > $led/CAR
> 
> would be a more flexible and IMHO nicer interface. (Maybe with improved
> file names.)

The question is whether it makes sense to combine several states on one
LED. We can add TTY_LED_RX or TTY_LED_TX to meet your requirements.
The only led trigger I know that combines multiple states is 
ledtrig-netdev.

If so, I can only imagine that we handle it the same way as with
ledtrig-netdev. For the states CTS/DSR/CAR/RNG, the LED goes on or off
and when data is transmitted (rx/tx), the LED flashes.

I have personally have a usecase where I need to indicate whether
I am getting CTS from the mode or not.

If that's how we want to do it, then I can only imagine that:

led=/sys/class/leds/<led>/
  	echo 1 > $led/rx
  	echo 0 > $led/tx
  	echo <CTS|DSR|CAR|RNG> > $led/tty_led_mode

I think it only makes sense to always display only one mode

This are "CTS|DSR|CAR|RNG".


Personally, I think
it complicates things because the LED shows several states.

Best regards
Florian