Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750749AbWBBLHx (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 06:07:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750751AbWBBLHx (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 06:07:53 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:15283 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750749AbWBBLHw (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Feb 2006 06:07:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 12:07:38 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Jens Axboe Cc: Richard Purdie , Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] LED: Add IDE disk activity LED trigger Message-ID: <20060202110738.GA2151@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1138714918.6869.139.camel@localhost.localdomain> <58cb370e0601310646y263acb96h62c422435e7016e@mail.gmail.com> <1138724479.6869.201.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060131203552.GG4215@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060131203552.GG4215@suse.de> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 829 Lines: 23 Hi! > > These solutions are going to end up with a lot of unused led triggers on > > any given system. > > Perhaps a generic solution isn't feasible, because this isn't really a > generic problem. The LED stuff has very limited use - you mention > embedded platforms, perhaps they should just be doing this on their > own? LEDs need userland API to be useful in some cases (mail LED). At that point saying "everybody make your own API" is very bad idea. (And we have old, ARM-private API at least, already. Idea is to do it once and do it right). Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp! - 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/