Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 16:26:29 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-input@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mjg@redhat.com, rjw@sisk.pl,
        len.brown@intel.com, dtor@insightbb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Input: atkbd - add LED triggers for keyboard state
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Hi!

> Many new laptop keyboards aren't shipping with LEDs in the keys for
> caps lock, num lock, and scroll lock. They do, however, ship with many LEDs
> for specialized functions that mostly go non-utilized by any current
> Linux drivers. Having a caps lock LED is very helpful in early boot full
> disk encryption, where a fancy GUI is not available to show that caps
> lock is activated.
> 
> This patch wires in the caps, num, and scroll lock states of the
> keyboard into the generic LED trigger subsystem, so that integrators can
> have different LEDs activated on caps/num/scroll lock state changes.

There's another patch floating around that properly integrates input
with LED subsystem; it already contains this functionality IIRC.
									Pavel

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