On Tue 2007-07-03 01:42:35, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Monday 02 July 2007 19:08, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I'll take patches. Ofcourse we'll have to keep the current EV_LED interface
> for compatibility.
Update.. both your and mine code seem to do something here -- but they
only keep turning the led off. If I press numlock to turn it on, they
will turn it off. Strange.
Pavel
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