From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Nico Schottelius <nico-linux-ppc@schottelius.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev list <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Heartbeat LED for iBook
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 00:42:26 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1106746946.6250.56.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050126113554.GD19633@schottelius.org>
On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 12:35 +0100, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Hello!
>
>
> Joerg Dorchain [Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 10:42:16AM +0100]:
> > [heartbeat blink patch]
>
> Well, wouldn't it make much more sense to write a
> /dev/frontled to access it via userspace?
>
> Then one could enable much more features like
> - xmms plugins
> - num-lock led
> - network-traffic
> - morse-codes
> - glowing when typing
> - ...
One can always control the led by sending PMU command directly
via /dev/adb :) Ok, that sort-of sucks, especially since the command is
only supported by some versions of the PMU. On the other hand, I dislike
cluttering /dev ... maybe I can find some better mecanism via sysfs...
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-26 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-18 9:42 [PATCH] Heartbeat LED for iBook Joerg Dorchain
2005-01-26 11:35 ` Nico Schottelius
2005-01-26 13:42 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2005-02-08 7:54 ` Nico Schottelius
2005-02-14 13:14 ` Segher Boessenkool
2005-02-18 11:13 ` Nico Schottelius
2005-02-18 12:11 ` Segher Boessenkool
2005-02-18 12:20 ` Nico Schottelius
2005-02-18 13:00 ` Segher Boessenkool
2005-02-18 17:58 ` Brad Boyer
2005-02-18 18:10 ` Segher Boessenkool
2005-02-19 19:17 ` Brad Boyer
2005-01-27 16:36 ` Joerg Dorchain
2005-02-18 14:57 ` ibook-led (finished) (was: [PATCH] Heartbeat LED for iBook) Nico Schottelius
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