Thread (46 messages) 46 messages, 12 authors, 2015-07-21

Re: [PATCH 1/2] vt: add cursor blink interval escape sequence

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2015-03-25 11:19:58
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On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 07:13:48PM +0000, Scot Doyle wrote:
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Add an escape sequence to specify the current console's cursor blink
interval. The interval is specified as a number of milliseconds until
the next cursor display state toggle, from 50 to 65535. /proc/loadavg
did not show a difference with a one msec interval, but the lower
bound is set to 50 msecs since slower hardware wasn't tested.

Store the interval in the vc_data structure for later access by fbcon,
initializing the value to fbcon's current hardcoded value of 200 msecs.

Signed-off-by: Scot Doyle <redacted>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <redacted>
---
 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c            | 9 +++++++++
 include/linux/console_struct.h | 1 +
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
index 6e00572..ab1f173 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ const struct consw *conswitchp;
  */
 #define DEFAULT_BELL_PITCH	750
 #define DEFAULT_BELL_DURATION	(HZ/8)
+#define DEFAULT_CURSOR_BLINK_MS	200
 
 struct vc vc_cons [MAX_NR_CONSOLES];
 
@@ -1590,6 +1591,13 @@ static void setterm_command(struct vc_data *vc)
 		case 15: /* activate the previous console */
 			set_console(last_console);
 			break;
+		case 16: /* set cursor blink duration in msec */
Where is this now documented?  Is this a "standard" ASCII command
somewhere?  Adding new userspace apis have to be documented properly.

Without that, I can't take this series, sorry.

greg k-h
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