From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: "Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>,
"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: blink driver power saving
Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:03:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d120d5000707021203v4cfe0d9fx560119035fa5d42a@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070702105000.73e50500@freepuppy.localdomain.hemminger.net>
On 7/2/07, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> The patch makes sense. You don't need to poll every jiffie to find
> out if system has panic. But I agree with Linus, it is the kind
> of patch that doesn't belong in the mainline kernel. Every developer
> seems to have built up a set of crappy/fragile debug tools, but these
> don't belong in the wild.
>
Stephen,
The drivers blinks LEDs when kernel operates normally. During panic
the panic_blink() routine in i8042 gets called directly, without
involving the blink driver.
--
Dmitry
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-02 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-01 16:50 Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-01 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-01 21:29 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-01 22:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-01 23:59 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-02 15:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-02 16:59 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-02 17:50 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-07-02 19:03 ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2007-07-02 19:08 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-02 23:18 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-01 21:26 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-02 11:43 Indan Zupancic
2007-07-02 11:51 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-02 12:29 ` Indan Zupancic
2007-07-02 12:31 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-02 12:39 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-02 12:56 ` Bernhard Walle
2007-07-02 13:42 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-02 13:43 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-02 20:19 ` Bernhard Walle
2007-07-04 21:47 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-05 5:25 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-02 23:08 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-03 5:42 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-04 21:40 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-04 21:57 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-04 22:11 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-05 5:38 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2007-07-12 9:10 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-13 0:42 ` Jiri Kosina
2007-07-04 22:32 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-04 22:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-04 22:59 ` Pavel Machek
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.0.98.0707041610530.9434@woody.linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-04 23:20 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-03 7:12 ` Bernhard Walle
2007-07-04 19:37 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-05 20:30 ` Bill Davidsen
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[not found] ` <8Cfjl-PJ-33@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <8CfW1-1TX-23@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <8ChEo-4yy-1@gated-at.bofh.it>
2007-07-02 13:11 ` Bodo Eggert
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