Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > led_blink_set[_oneshot]()'s delay_on and delay_off function parameters > are pass by reference, so that hw-blink implementations can report > back the actual achieved delays when the values have been rounded > to something the hw supports. > > This is really only interesting for the sysfs API / the timer trigger. > Other triggers don't really care about this and none of the callers of > led_trigger_blink[_oneshot]() do anything with the returned delay values. > > Change the led_trigger_blink[_oneshot]() delay parameters to pass-by-value, > there are 2 reasons for this: > > 1. led_cdev->blink_set() may sleep, while led_trigger_blink() may not. > So on hw where led_cdev->blink_set() sleeps the call needs to be deferred > to a workqueue, in which case the actual achieved delays are unknown > (this is a preparation patch for the deferring). > > 2. Since the callers don't care about the actual achieved delays, allowing > callers to directly pass a value leads to simpler code for most callers. For netfilter: Acked-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
