Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] tty/leds: implement a trigger for ttys

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Dec 17 2019 - 03:32:59 EST


On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 09:17:15AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> Hello,
>
> back in November last year I sent my last approach to implement an led
> trigger for UARTs (Message-Id:
> 20181106213739.29628-1-u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx). This was parked
> on my todo list since then somewhere far from the top.
>
> This is a new approach. Similar to the netdev trigger the tty trigger
> introduced here periodically checks the statistics related to a given
> tty and if that changed the LED is flashed once.
>
> I had to introduce two functions in the tty layer to be able to get my
> hands on the needed data in the first two patches, the third patch then
> adds the trigger.

I like the idea, seems sane. Minor code nits on the implementation
though...

thanks,

greg k-h