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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] leds: Introduce userspace leds driver
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
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On 09/22/2016 08:43 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:16 PM, David Lechner <david@lechnology.com> wrote:
>
>> This driver creates a userspace leds driver similar to uinput.
>
> Just out of curiosity: what is this used for?
> The typical usecase evades me, so I'd really want to know.
>

Several use cases are explained in this thread:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/25/505


>> +See tools/leds/uledmon.c for an example userspace program.
>
> Where is this program? Not in this patch for sure.
>
> Yours,
> Linus Walleij
>