On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 10:51:10AM -0800, David Brownell wrote: > On Thursday 14 February 2008, Andrew McKay wrote: > > What would be the best way to implement a loop to handle flashing the LED > > in > > kernel space. ?Is this a good task for a kthread? ?Or is there a simpler > > construct to do this with? > > Use the LED framework ... it supports a variety of triggers. > For example, "heartbeat" blinks faster as system load increases, > "timer" has easily settable periods, and you can manually set > the brightness ... all under sysfs control.
And, best of all, you tie into the standard Linux API for LEDs, always a much better idea than implementing your own API through a custom ioctl that no one else is going to know about. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
