From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757241AbbAZX3j (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:29:39 -0500 Received: from a.ns.miles-group.at ([95.130.255.143]:65275 "EHLO radon.swed.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754575AbbAZX3h (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:29:37 -0500 Message-ID: <54C6CDDC.5010507@nod.at> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 00:29:32 +0100 From: Richard Weinberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Scot Doyle , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Tomi Valkeinen CC: Geert Uytterhoeven , Richard Weinberger , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] fbcon: user-defined cursor blink interval References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 27.01.2015 um 00:09 schrieb Scot Doyle: > Since users prefer different fbcon cursor blink intervals, allow the > interval to be set via sysfs. The current interval of 200 milliseconds > is retained as the default. Tested with intelfb. > > v2: Use kstrtos16() instead of kstrtoul() and min_t() as suggested by > Geert Uytterhoeven > v3: Add error messages as suggested by Tomi Valkeinen > v4: Add rationale into patch descriptions as suggested by > Richard Weinberger Hehe, no need to resend immediately a v4, I'm just curios about the use case. :) Why do users want a different blink interval? What is the use case? And what are these users? Most people use a fbcon only for a few moments to fix/restart X11. Thanks, //richard From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Weinberger Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 23:29:32 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] fbcon: user-defined cursor blink interval Message-Id: <54C6CDDC.5010507@nod.at> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Scot Doyle , Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Tomi Valkeinen Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , Richard Weinberger , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am 27.01.2015 um 00:09 schrieb Scot Doyle: > Since users prefer different fbcon cursor blink intervals, allow the > interval to be set via sysfs. The current interval of 200 milliseconds > is retained as the default. Tested with intelfb. > > v2: Use kstrtos16() instead of kstrtoul() and min_t() as suggested by > Geert Uytterhoeven > v3: Add error messages as suggested by Tomi Valkeinen > v4: Add rationale into patch descriptions as suggested by > Richard Weinberger Hehe, no need to resend immediately a v4, I'm just curios about the use case. :) Why do users want a different blink interval? What is the use case? And what are these users? Most people use a fbcon only for a few moments to fix/restart X11. Thanks, //richard