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SubjectRe: [PATCH] blink: Only blink when parameter is set
Hi!

> This patch in the blink driver changes the module to only blink when
> the parameter 'blink' is set to true. This is to allow the module to
> be compiled in the kernel and not as module.
>
> As the blink module was initially written for kdump, and as the kernel
> is relocatable on lots of architectures, there's no need to compile a
> separate kdump kernel. The blinking can now enabled via the boot
> command line for the kdump kernel when necessary.
>
> The patch also adds some author/license information and marks the init
> function as '__init'.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>

Patch looks good (and needed!) to me, but:

can we remove that driver, instead?

* It breaks keyboards. Yes, we are
talking about maybe-broken i8042s, but it still breaks thinkpads at
least.

* It can be done in userspace. setleds +num; sleep 1; setleds -num <
/dev/tty1 does not seem like rocket science to me.

* if we want to do this, perhaps we should use proper led interface
(/sys/class/led) that can already auto-blink

Pavel
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