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Message-ID: <20131228192630.GA28026@amd.pavel.ucw.cz>
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 20:26:30 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To: Joe Xue <lgxue@...mail.com>
Cc: "cooloney@...il.com" <cooloney@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add the LED burst trigger
Hi!
> > And while " " for pause and "#" for light would work. Maybe we chould
> > do "\0" for pause and "\177" for light... and interpret everything
> > between as an intensity. That will make it useful for LEDs with
> > variable intensites, too...
>
> "\0" is not easy to give if application is a script.
> intensity is a good idea, but makes it more complex, and user need to convert the "\num" to a ASCII code.
>
OTOH it is easier for C programs _and_ we can support different
brightness levels.
It is not that bad from script:
echo -ne '\0\051\0377' > foo...
Pavel
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