From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760954AbXGDV5R (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 17:57:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755735AbXGDV5J (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 17:57:09 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:40517 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755636AbXGDV5I (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 17:57:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2007 23:57:01 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Andi Kleen , Indan Zupancic , Linus Torvalds , Stephen Hemminger , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bwalle@suse.de Subject: Re: blink driver power saving Message-ID: <20070704215701.GA1896@elf.ucw.cz> References: <51563.81.207.0.53.1183376603.squirrel@secure.samage.net> <200707021439.27357.ak@suse.de> <20070702230827.GA9071@elf.ucw.cz> <200707030142.36252.dtor@insightbb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200707030142.36252.dtor@insightbb.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html