On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Richard Weinberger wrote: > Am 27.01.2015 um 00:09 schrieb Scot Doyle: > > Since users prefer different fbcon cursor blink intervals, allow the > > interval to be set via sysfs. The current interval of 200 milliseconds > > is retained as the default. Tested with intelfb. > > > > v2: Use kstrtos16() instead of kstrtoul() and min_t() as suggested by > > Geert Uytterhoeven > > v3: Add error messages as suggested by Tomi Valkeinen > > v4: Add rationale into patch descriptions as suggested by > > Richard Weinberger > > Hehe, no need to resend immediately a v4, I'm just curios about the use case. :) > Why do users want a different blink interval? What is the use case? > And what are these users? Most people use a fbcon only for a few moments > to fix/restart X11. > > Thanks, > //richard Ah, I see! With multiple ncurses windows, some of which contain reversed characters, a blinking underscore is helpful for locating the cursor. But, the 200 millisecond interval can be distracting. Another example is http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/55423/how-to-change-cursor-shape-color-and-blinkrate-of-linux-console -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
