Re: [PATCH] input: extend EV_LED

2007-02-18 Thread Richard Purdie
On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 08:45 +0100, Németh Márton wrote: > A blinking led is basically a PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) > signal. A PWM signal has three different attribute. The > first one is the amplitude, this attribute is already > provided by the led subsystem as "brightness". There are two > mor

Re: [PATCH] input: extend EV_LED

2007-02-18 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 08:45:00AM +0100, Németh Márton wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Richard Purdie wrote: > > > This has been discussed in several places several times. > The problem > > > with hardware accelerated flashing is that yo

Re: [PATCH] input: extend EV_LED

2007-02-17 Thread Németh Márton
On Fri, 16 Feb 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Thu, 15 Feb 2007, Richard Purdie wrote: > > This has been discussed in several places several times. The problem > > with hardware accelerated flashing is that you're are often limited to > > certain constraints (this case being no excep

Re: [PATCH] input: extend EV_LED

2007-02-16 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > >I do not know the LED subsystem in detail, but I do not > > > >know > > > >any possibility to access the i8042 from different > > > >subsystem > > > >than the input subsystem. > > > > > > > >What do you think and recommend? > > > > > > I think you need to use leds framework for what

Re: [PATCH] input: extend EV_LED

2007-02-15 Thread Richard Purdie
On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 00:24 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > The led framework is generic. If you can write a function to turn it > > on/off you can drive it with the LED framework. > > Even if that function is slow and sleeps? The LED class itself can call in interrupt context so you'd have to sch

Re: [PATCH] input: extend EV_LED

2007-02-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > > > >I do not know the LED subsystem in detail, but I do not > > > > >know any possibility to access the i8042 from different > > > > >subsystem than the input subsystem. > > > > > > > > > >What do you think and recommend? > > > > > > > > I think you need to use leds framework for what

Re: [PATCH] input: extend EV_LED

2007-02-15 Thread Richard Purdie
On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 23:47 +0100, Németh Márton wrote: > Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I do not know the LED subsystem in detail, but I do not > > > >know any possibility to access the i8042 from different > > > >subsystem than the input subsystem. > > > > > > > >What do you thi

Re: [PATCH] input: extend EV_LED

2007-02-15 Thread Németh Márton
Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > > >I do not know the LED subsystem in detail, but I do not > > >know > > >any possibility to access the i8042 from different > > >subsystem > > >than the input subsystem. > > > > > >What do you think and recommend? > > > > I think you need to

Re: [PATCH] input: extend EV_LED

2007-02-15 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > >I do not know the LED subsystem in detail, but I do not > >know > >any possibility to access the i8042 from different > >subsystem > >than the input subsystem. > > > >What do you think and recommend? > > I think you need to use leds framework for what you are > trying to do. I'm actual

Re: [PATCH] input: extend EV_LED

2007-02-14 Thread Németh Márton
Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/14/07, Németh Márton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> írta: > > > > > On 2/11/07, Németh Márton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Extend EV_LED handling code so that it can handle not > > > > onl

Re: [PATCH] input: extend EV_LED

2007-02-14 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On 2/14/07, Németh Márton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> írta: > On 2/11/07, Németh Márton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Extend EV_LED handling code so that it can handle not > > only two states (on/off) but also others. For example > > a LED can blink usin

Re: [PATCH] input: extend EV_LED

2007-02-14 Thread Németh Márton
Dmitry Torokhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> írta: > On 2/11/07, Németh Márton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Extend EV_LED handling code so that it can handle not > > only two states (on/off) but also others. For example > > a LED can blink using hardware acceleration. The code > > changed so that i