Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:37:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:37:32 -0400 Received: from pcp01179415pcs.strl1201.mi.comcast.net ([68.60.208.36]:8432 "EHLO mythical") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:37:32 -0400 Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 17:40:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Ryan Anderson To: Alan Cox cc: "Albert D. Cahalan" , "David D. Hagood" , Andrew Rodland , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Speaker twiddling [was: Re: Panicking in morse code] In-Reply-To: <1027809643.21511.0.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1065 Lines: 27 > > Morse doesn't do "<" and other common characters. For those > > who know it, morse is useful. For well over 99% of the users, > > morse is gibberish anyway. > > I spent a long time suffering to learn morse. Now for once in my life > it'll actually be -useful- I suspect that the speaker twiddling portion of the code is 100 times more important than the LED blinking part of it. Everyone I know (as a Radio Amateur) that knows Morse learned it by hearing it - seeing blinking lights is a totally different part of the brain that needs to learn how to interpret the input. My gut feeling says that this patch falls into the "cool hack" category, more than anything else - but the best part about cool hacks is that they are occassionally really really useful to someone. -- Ryan Anderson sometimes Pug Majere - 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/