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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] leds: apu: drop superseeded apu2/3 led support
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On 16.07.19 21:30, Pavel Machek wrote:

Hi,

> Ok, so I understand the reasons, but people updating from old kernels
> (make oldconfig) will see nothing and their LEDs will stop working.
> 
> Can we do something to help them?

I could announce that in pcengines forum. There've been several
discussions on this matter, replying there should give the participants
an automatic mail.

So far, I haven't seen any distro that enabled the old driver, so I
guess the actual users all compiled the kernel on their own and should
notice the change early enough.


--mtx

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