linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] leds: ledtrig-morse: send out morse code

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Date:   Wed, 4 Jul 2018 08:53:05 +0200
From:   Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:     Andreas Klinger <ak@...klinger.de>
Cc:     jacek.anaszewski@...il.com, ben.whitten@...il.com,
        geert+renesas@...der.be, w@....eu, pombredanne@...b.com,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-leds@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] leds: ledtrig-morse: send out morse code

On Tue 2018-07-03 17:53:28, Andreas Klinger wrote:
> Send out a morse code by using LEDs.
> 
> This is useful especially on embedded systems without displays to tell the
> user about error conditions and status information.
> 
> The trigger will be called "morse"
> 
> The string to be send is written into the file morse_string and sent out
> with a workqueue. Supported are letters and digits.
> 
> With the file dot_unit the minimal time unit can be adjusted in
> milliseconds.
> 
> Also add documentation for the morse led trigger
> 
> Thanks to Greg and Geert for suggesting improvements
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Klinger <ak@...klinger.de>

As I stated before, I don't think morse encoder belongs in kernel.

LED pattern trigger should be merged, instead.
									Pavel

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