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Fabio Baltieri5e417282012-06-07 06:11:05 +08001One-shot LED Trigger
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4This is a LED trigger useful for signaling the user of an event where there are
5no clear trap points to put standard led-on and led-off settings. Using this
6trigger, the application needs only to signal the trigger when an event has
7happened, than the trigger turns the LED on and than keeps it off for a
8specified amount of time.
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10This trigger is meant to be usable both for sporadic and dense events. In the
11first case, the trigger produces a clear single controlled blink for each
12event, while in the latter it keeps blinking at constant rate, as to signal
13that the events are arriving continuously.
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15A one-shot LED only stays in a constant state when there are no events. An
16additional "invert" property specifies if the LED has to stay off (normal) or
17on (inverted) when not rearmed.
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19The trigger can be activated from user space on led class devices as shown
20below:
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22 echo oneshot > trigger
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24This adds the following sysfs attributes to the LED:
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26 delay_on - specifies for how many milliseconds the LED has to stay at
27 LED_FULL brightness after it has been armed.
28 Default to 100 ms.
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30 delay_off - specifies for how many milliseconds the LED has to stay at
31 LED_OFF brightness after it has been armed.
32 Default to 100 ms.
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34 invert - reverse the blink logic. If set to 0 (default) blink on for delay_on
35 ms, then blink off for delay_off ms, leaving the LED normally off. If
36 set to 1, blink off for delay_off ms, then blink on for delay_on ms,
37 leaving the LED normally on.
38 Setting this value also immediately change the LED state.
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40 shot - write any non-empty string to signal an events, this starts a blink
41 sequence if not already running.
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43Example use-case: network devices, initialization:
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45 echo oneshot > trigger # set trigger for this led
46 echo 33 > delay_on # blink at 1 / (33 + 33) Hz on continuous traffic
47 echo 33 > delay_off
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49interface goes up:
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51 echo 1 > invert # set led as normally-on, turn the led on
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53packet received/transmitted:
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55 echo 1 > shot # led starts blinking, ignored if already blinking
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57interface goes down
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59 echo 0 > invert # set led as normally-off, turn the led off