Re: blink driver power saving

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

On Mon 2007-07-02 14:39:27, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > > Perhaps one of you geniuses who all hate it can find a better way to
> > > solve the "video output dead after kexec; but need visual feedback to the user
> > > while crash dumping" problem. I'm waiting for your patches.
> > >
> > 
> > I don't don't like it ;) Unfortunately too many people end up enabling
> 
> Yes that's pretty weird. I admit I hadn't expected
> that problem. blink is equivalent to "annoy me" and it
> is a mystery why so many people should willingly ask their computer to 
> annoy them.

tristate "Keyboard blink driver"

...drivers are not expected to act on their own. I was expecting to
get nice /sys/class/led* interface to my keyboard leds.

BTW ... I still believe we should have /sys/class/led* interface to
those leds. I'd like to make them blink with hdd activity on some
machines... of course, that needs non-buggy KBC.

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