Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756979AbXFVUpe (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:45:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751175AbXFVUpZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:45:25 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:2826 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751990AbXFVUpY (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Jun 2007 16:45:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 08:58:38 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Jiri Kosina , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: [PATCH] blink: Only blink when parameter is set Message-ID: <20070622085837.GA6924@ucw.cz> References: <20070617083904.GC4496@suse.de> <20070621002034.GA18143@elf.ucw.cz> <200706202256.53850.dtor@insightbb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200706202256.53850.dtor@insightbb.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 709 Lines: 18 Hi! > > In fact it looks quite weird that one blink per 5 seconds can break the > > keyboard, in fact. > > Not wierd at all. The driver uses panic_blink - something that we expect > to work after panic. It rapidly polls KBC status register to detect when Aha. Can we get rid of that driver? It is so broken it is not funny. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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/