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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gpio sysfs: add a "toggle" value
Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2009 02:05:01 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090604020501.cdeb8f10.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0906040152h1fa57f5crd96faa37322a1b40@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 4 Jun 2009 04:52:35 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> wrote:

> my next request was for a 1 letter command set and chaining
> operations.  say you want to toggle a gpio line 4 times, having to go
> between kernel and userspace for that seems kind of heavy.
> echo TTTT > value

I was wondering whether "t" would be better than "toggle".

If you're going to do that, wouldn't you need a "d"(elay) too?  To
prevent large variations in interval between different platforms.  1
millisec, perhaps.

0d1dd0d1ddd0d1, too.

This could be fun.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-04  9:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-03  8:16 [PATCH] gpio sysfs: add a "toggle" value Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04  7:54 ` Andrew Morton
2009-06-04  8:16   ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04  8:27     ` David Brownell
2009-06-04  8:52       ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04  9:05         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2009-06-04  9:06         ` David Brownell
2009-06-04  9:09           ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04  9:15             ` David Brownell
2009-06-04  9:20               ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04  9:48                 ` David Brownell
2009-06-04 10:06                   ` Mike Frysinger
2009-06-04  8:36     ` Andrew Morton

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