>> + * Based on Richard Purdie's ledtrig-timer.c and Atsushi Nemoto's >> + * ledtrig-heartbeat.c and Shuah Khan's ledtrig-transient.c > > I stil think this belongs in user space except for platforms with hardware > acceleration for it. This can free the user space application from loop or thread. >> +#define MAX_PATTEN_LEN 255 > > Arbitary limits that are not needed if it was in userspace, and not it > seems a sensible one - why not use 256 ? Yes, will change it to kmalloc >> +static DEVICE_ATTR(pattern, 0644, pattern_pattern_show, pattern_pattern_store); >> +static DEVICE_ATTR(delay_unit, 0644, >> +static void pattern_trig_deactivate(struct led_classdev *led_cdev) >> +{ >> + struct pattern_trig_data *pattern_data = led_cdev->trigger_data; >> + >> + if (led_cdev->activated) { >> + del_timer_sync(&pattern_data->timer); >> + device_remove_file(led_cdev->dev, &dev_attr_pattern); >> + device_remove_file(led_cdev->dev, &dev_attr_delay_unit); > > This doesn't as far as I can see do what you think. If I have the file > currently open then device_remove_file will not remove my existing access > to it, but you just released the pattern data so I now write to free > memory. will add the mutex lock to avoid that -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html