Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer

From	Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer
Date	2017-09-20 22:10 +0200
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On 09/20/2017 01:29 PM, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>>>> I'd leave the decision to the user. We could add a note to the
>>>>> Documentation/leds/ledtrig-transient.txt that force feedback interface
>>>>> should be preferable choice for driving vibrate devices.
>>>>> However only if following conditions are met:
>>>>
>>>> What I meant is that it is my decision, as a LED subsystem maintainer,
>>>> to accept the addition of a note about some other subsystem offering
>>>> an equivalent or even better substitute of the feature being available
>>>> in the subsystem I am responsible for. And I will accept such a patch
>>>> only if mentioned conditions are met.
>>>
>>> Having the wording in documentation does not in any way stops Android
>>> folks from continuing [ab]using the transient trigger. But this is
>>> their choice. The purpose of documentation is to document the best
>>> practices, not all possible crazy solutions one can come up with.
>>
>> Yes. but if the information has been in place for years, we can't
>> just remove it without giving an instruction on how to use the
>> substitute.
> 
> I gave you information how to use the substitute.

That information was quite vague. I'd like to see a sample application
in tools/input.

> I already suggested patch to documentation. If you do the same, maybe
> we can agree on documentation update.

Your patch was just removing few lines of documentation. I'd expect more
empathic approach to the current users, i.e.:

- pointer to the sample application in tools/input showing how to
  setup gpio driven vibrate device with use of ff interface with
  1kHz vibration frequency.


-- 
Best regards,
Jacek Anaszewski

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[PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer David Lin <dtwlin@google.com> - 2017-09-13 20:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 2/3] leds: Add the LED_BRIGHTNESS_FAST flag David Lin <dtwlin@google.com> - 2017-09-13 20:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 3/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer David Lin <dtwlin@google.com> - 2017-09-13 20:00 +0200
  [PATCH v2 1/3] leds: Replace flags bit shift with BIT() macros David Lin <dtwlin@google.com> - 2017-09-13 20:00 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] leds: Replace flags bit shift with BIT() macros Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-14 21:50 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-13 22:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer David Lin <dtwlin@google.com> - 2017-09-13 23:30 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-13 23:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer David Lin <dtwlin@google.com> - 2017-09-14 19:40 +0200
          Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-14 21:50 +0200
    Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-14 21:40 +0200
      Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer David Lin <dtwlin@google.com> - 2017-09-14 21:40 +0200
        Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led: ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-14 22:10 +0200
      Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-14 23:00 +0200
        Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-09-15 20:40 +0200
          Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-16 00:00 +0200
            Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-09-16 00:40 +0200
              Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-17 18:50 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-17 20:30 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-17 23:20 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-18 23:00 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-09-19 00:30 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-19 22:50 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> - 2017-09-19 23:10 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 21:40 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-20 13:30 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 22:10 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-20 13:30 +0200
            Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-16 15:10 +0200
        Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-16 00:00 +0200
          Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-16 14:40 +0200
            Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-17 18:50 +0200
              Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-17 20:00 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-18 22:50 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2017-09-20 13:20 +0200
                Re: Vibrations in input vs. LED was Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] led:  ledtrig-transient: add support for hrtimer Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com> - 2017-09-20 20:50 +0200

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