Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272838AbTG3Lw5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 07:52:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272840AbTG3Lw5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 07:52:57 -0400 Received: from crl-mail.crl.dec.com ([192.58.206.9]:49046 "EHLO crl-mail.crl.dec.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272838AbTG3Lw4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 07:52:56 -0400 Subject: Re: PATCH : LEDs - possibly the most pointless kernel subsystem ever From: Jamey Hicks To: Pavel Machek Cc: Philip Graham Willoughby , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030729180005.GD2601@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <20030729151701.GA6795@bodmin.doc.ic.ac.uk> <20030729180005.GD2601@openzaurus.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1059565549.27394.9.camel@vimes.crl.hpl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2-3mdk Date: 30 Jul 2003 07:45:49 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam (whitelisted), SpamAssassin (score=-0.5, required 5, IN_REP_TO, REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 724 Lines: 20 On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 14:00, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > I'd not said this is so pointless... handhelds tend to have "new mail" led for example. > Better question is why it is not integrated with input subsystem (similar to kbd leds). I would have thought that leds are output? Why would output devices be integrated into the input subsystem? I do think that the Linux kernel should have a generic LED interface for devices that have them available as indicators. -Jamey - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/