Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:27:27 +0200
From: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
To: John Lenz <lenz@cs.wisc.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new class for led devices
Message-ID: <20040922072727.GA4553@ucw.cz>
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On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 05:07:21AM +0000, John Lenz wrote:

> This is an attempt to provide an alternative to the current arm  
> specific led interface that is generic for all arches and uses the "one  
> value, one file" idea of sysfs.
> 
> I removed the function attribute that was in the previous patch, and  
> added the ability for userspace to control the timer on each led  
> individually.  Userspace can also set the delay in milliseconds for the  
> blink.

Well, we already have an interface for setting LEDs through the input
layer, it'd be trivial to create an input device driver with just LEDs
and no buttons/keys ...

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs, SuSE CR
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