Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Feb 2006 12:07:38 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 10/11] LED: Add IDE disk activity LED trigger |
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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/
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