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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add the LED burst trigger
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On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>> Good idea.
>> I have finished but I'll change it to this way soon and test it in next some days.
>>
>> What the idea about the character to indicate stop?
>>
>> I mean this patten maybe indicate just once maybe indicate repeatedly until the next patten.
>>
>> What about "/"?
>> If there is a "/" at end then stop it else repeat it?
>
> Actually, I'd put a do_repeat attribute somewhere instead of using
> magic character for automatic repeats.
>
> And while " " for pause and "#" for light would work. Maybe we chould
> do "\0" for pause and "\177" for light... and interpret everything
> between as an intensity. That will make it useful for LEDs with
> variable intensites, too...

Sysfs is meant to be human-readable/writable, so please use plain ASCII
numbers in strings instead.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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