Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:54:52 +0200 (MEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] new class for led devices |
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On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, John Lenz wrote: > This is an attempt to provide an alternative to the current arm specific led > interface that is generic for all arches and uses the "one value, one file" > idea of sysfs. > > I removed the function attribute that was in the previous patch, and added the > ability for userspace to control the timer on each led individually. > Userspace can also set the delay in milliseconds for the blink.
(damned, non-inlined patch)
| - heartbeat: a read/write attribute that controls the heartbeat of this | led. If heartbeat=0, then this led is controlled by userspace. | Otherwise, heartbeat gives the time in milliseconds to delay between | light changes.
That's not the real heartbeat! The real one says thumb-thumb-pause, and goes faster if the load average increases :-)
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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