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Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:03:43 -0400
From: "Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: "Stephen Hemminger" <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: blink driver power saving
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       "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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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