Re: [PATCH] Add keyboard blink driver

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:28:08 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@novell.com> wrote:

> > I wonder if this facility would be more effective if it were to use
> > schedule_delayed_work().  That way, we're using more of the kernel and it
> > will more reliably detect kernel deadness.
>  
> Hmm, maybe

??

> +static void do_blink(unsigned long data)
> +{
> +	static long count;
> +	if (panic_blink)
> +		panic_blink(count++);
> +	blink_timer.expires = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(1);
> +	add_timer(&blink_timer);
> +}
> +
> +static int blink_init(void)
> +{
> +	printk(KERN_INFO "Enabling keyboard blinking\n");
> +	do_blink(0);
> +	return 0;
> +}

Would it be better to just not start the timer at all if panic_blink==0? 
That would improve life rather a lot for people who link this into vmlinux
but don't have i8042.