Re: [PATCH] leds: oneshot - Allow default delay to be passed as an argument

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On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 11:42 PM, Jacek Anaszewski
<jacek.anaszewski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 09/03/2016 05:35 PM, Amitesh Singh wrote:
>>
>> Hello Jacek,
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 3, 2016 at 7:14 PM, Jacek Anaszewski
>> <jacek.anaszewski@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jacek.anaszewski@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi Amitesh,
>>
>>
>>     On 09/03/2016 11:03 AM, Amitesh Singh wrote:
>>
>>         This patch facilates the blink delay to be passed as
>>         an argument at the time of module loading.
>>         e.g.
>>         insmod ledtrigg-oneshot.ko default_delay=100
>>         ---
>>          drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-oneshot.c | 7 +++++--
>>          1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>>         diff --git a/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-oneshot.c
>>         b/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-oneshot.c
>>         index b8ea9f0..95933a1 100644
>>         --- a/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-oneshot.c
>>         +++ b/drivers/leds/trigger/ledtrig-oneshot.c
>>         @@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
>>
>>          #define DEFAULT_DELAY 100
>>
>>         +static unsigned long default_delay = DEFAULT_DELAY;
>>         +module_param(default_delay, ulong, S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR);
>>         +
>>          struct oneshot_trig_data {
>>                 unsigned int invert;
>>          };
>>         @@ -146,8 +149,8 @@ static void oneshot_trig_activate(struct
>>         led_classdev *led_cdev)
>>                 if (rc)
>>                         goto err_out_invert;
>>
>>         -       led_cdev->blink_delay_on = DEFAULT_DELAY;
>>         -       led_cdev->blink_delay_off = DEFAULT_DELAY;
>>         +       led_cdev->blink_delay_on = default_delay;
>>         +       led_cdev->blink_delay_off = default_delay;
>>
>>                 led_cdev->activated = true;
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>     Why do you need this module parameter? You can change
>>     delay_on and delay_off values from sysfs.
>>
>> Yes, indeed. If someone wants to change blink_delay, he has to change
>> both delay_on and delay_off in case you want to blink with constant time
>> ON and OFF (1 / (T + T) = 1/2T)
>> This patch facilitates you to modify delay in one step in case of delay
>> on and off are same which I think, is most used case.
>
>
> I don't think this is real improvement. We spare two sysfs file
> write operations only in case the default_delay param value passed
> on module loading won't need to be altered later on.
>
> Moreover, three sysfs file writes needed for configuring oneshot
> trigger (e.g. echo "oneshot" > trigger; echo 100 > delay_on;
> echo 50 > delay_off) are not too expensive taking into account
> usual frequency of setting LED trigger (surely less often than
> once per second).
>
>
This is for configuring the led trigger delay on/off parameter when I
instantiate the driver from kernel space.
I am instantiating oneshot trigger at the time of boot up.

> --
> Best regards,
> Jacek Anaszewski
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