Re: [PATCH RFC 0/2] next round for an uart led trigger

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On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 10:37:37PM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> this is the next round of a led trigger for an UART. Instead of adding
> callbacks to serial_core I took an approach similar to the netdev
> trigger: A work thread checks the statistics of the device and if
> something happened since the last round the LED is flashed.
> 
> This is an early prototype that has broken locking. Also in the long run
> I want to add some "filters" to the trigger for example to trigger only
> on RX or TX.
> 
> Do you (also) think this is a better approach then in the former
> discussions?
> 
> I'm not yet sure how to get the locking right. After the trigger driver
> got a pointer to the uart_ports structure the port must not go away
> until the statistics are checked. If you have an idea here that would
> be great.

How does the networking core handle this type of interaction?  Can't you
solve this the same way they do?

And yes, this seems like a much better way to handle this, good idea.

thanks,

greg k-h



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