Re: [PATCH v4 1/2] leds: core: Introduce LED pattern trigger

Pavel Machek
2018-08-06T08:06:23Z

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On Mon 2018-08-06 15:33:12, Baolin Wang wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
> On 6 August 2018 at 15:09, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> >> > In current implementation this file on read returns the number
> >> > of remaining repeat intervals. I'd add that to this description.
> >>
> >> I saw Pavel's comments that he did not suggest do this. So I will keep
> >> the original description?
> >
> > If that is accepted, the code should return originally written number.
>
> But I think it is more reasonable if user can know how many
> repetitions were left. So for your hardware case, can we add
> pattern_get() interface back to get the repetition number?

Well, I'd say that we are mostly seeing "infinite" repetitions, or one
repetition.

Yes, interface could be added to the lowlever driver -- but I'm not
sure hardware really supports getting that information; could be
tricky on N900 for example.

I'd keep it simple for now.
Pavel
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