From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757485AbbA0BIg (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:08:36 -0500 Received: from mx1.scotdoyle.com ([23.226.141.211]:49820 "EHLO mx1.scotdoyle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752438AbbA0BId (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2015 20:08:33 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 01:06:29 +0000 (UTC) From: Scot Doyle To: Richard Weinberger cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Tomi Valkeinen , 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 In-Reply-To: <54C6CDDC.5010507@nod.at> Message-ID: References: <54C6CDDC.5010507@nod.at> User-Agent: Alpine 2.11 (DEB 23 2013-08-11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Richard Weinberger wrote: > 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 Ah, I see! With multiple ncurses windows, some of which contain reversed characters, a blinking underscore is helpful for locating the cursor. But, the 200 millisecond interval can be distracting. Another example is http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/55423/how-to-change-cursor-shape-color-and-blinkrate-of-linux-console From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scot Doyle Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 01:06:29 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/2] fbcon: user-defined cursor blink interval Message-Id: List-Id: References: <54C6CDDC.5010507@nod.at> In-Reply-To: <54C6CDDC.5010507@nod.at> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Richard Weinberger Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard , Tomi Valkeinen , Geert Uytterhoeven , Richard Weinberger , linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 27 Jan 2015, Richard Weinberger wrote: > 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 Ah, I see! With multiple ncurses windows, some of which contain reversed characters, a blinking underscore is helpful for locating the cursor. But, the 200 millisecond interval can be distracting. Another example is http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/55423/how-to-change-cursor-shape-color-and-blinkrate-of-linux-console