Re: [RFC] led-class: always implement blinking

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 21:48 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:

> Well, this function gets assigned to led_cdev->blink_set(), which is a
> function pointer that takes pass-by-reference arguments. The comment
> there says:
> 
>         /* Activate hardware accelerated blink, delays are in
>          * miliseconds and if none is provided then a sensible default
>          * should be chosen. The call can adjust the timings if it can't
>          * match the values specified exactly. */
>         int             (*blink_set)(struct led_classdev *led_cdev,
>                                      unsigned long *delay_on,
>                                      unsigned long *delay_off);
> 
> but the software implementation doesn't adjust the timings, of course. I
> suppose the "adjust the timings" was also meant to update the values.

But I should update this and the other documentation ... and also
provide a wrapper, because blink_set() is allowed to fail, in which
software fallback should be used.

johannes