Re: [PATCH] new class for led devices

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

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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