On Thu 2017-08-17 01:21:37, Paulo Costa wrote:
> > Hmm. You could do led=on, udelay(100), led=off. Do that 100 times a
> > second, and I believe you'll get quite nice low levels.
> 
> I don't want to keep the CPU busy on a delay() just for blinking led,
> even if only for a few micros.

Well... it will enable you to have nice low brigtness. Few
microseconds should not be a problem.

> > Now... nice hack. Probably can be improved. But is it suitable for
> > mainline?
> 
> Thank you =)
> 
> It's a proof of concept for now, definitely not ready for mainline.
> 
> Instead of a LED trigger + wrapper LED entry, I think this should kick in
> if we set 'myled/dither=1' or something like that.
> 
> Now, do you think it would be a nice addition / Should I put more work on it?

Actually, I'm not sure. Sounds a bit too hacky to me... Your
choice. If your goal is to learn about kernel, you are on the right
track :-).

									Pavel
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