From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932119AbaAAULs (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jan 2014 15:11:48 -0500 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:59899 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756069AbaAAULq (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Jan 2014 15:11:46 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 20:11:31 +0000 From: One Thousand Gnomes To: Pavel Machek Cc: Richard Weinberger , Joe Xue , "cooloney@gmail.com" , "rpurdie@rpsys.net" , "rob@landley.net" , "milo.kim@ti.com" , "linux-leds@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add LED pattern trigger Message-ID: <20140101201131.575a6337@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20131231190304.GA15451@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> References: <1388362275-1618-1-git-send-email-lgxue@hotmail.com> <20131230183302.GA28430@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <20131231113352.GA4233@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> <20131231190304.GA15451@amd.pavel.ucw.cz> Organization: Intel Corporation X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.20; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Why do we need this within the kernel? > > Patterns can easily created using a simple user space program. > > Some machines (N900) can do blinking in hardware, and we want > consistent kernel-user interface. See the mailing list. We have things called "libraries", see the mailing list. Alan