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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 1/2] leds: core: Introduce generic pattern interface
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Hi Pavel,

On 07/14/2018 11:20 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>>> It also drew my attention to the issue of desired pattern sysfs
>>> interface semantics on uninitialized pattern. In your implementation
>>> user seems to be unable to determine if the pattern is activated
>>> or not. We should define the semantics for this use case and
>>> describe it in the documentation. Possibly pattern could
>>> return alone new line character then.
>
> Let me take a step back: we have triggers.. like LED blinking.
>
> How is that going to interact with patterns? We probably want the
> patterns to be ignored in that case...?
>
> Which suggest to me that we should treat patterns as a trigger. I
> believe we do something similar with blinking already.
>
> Then it is easy to determine if pattern is active, and pattern
> vs. trigger issue is solved automatically.

I'm all for it. I proposed this approach during the previous
discussions related to possible pattern interface implementations,
but you seemed not to be so enthusiastic in [0].

[0] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/7/350

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Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski
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