From: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
To: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Cc: "Jean-Francois Moine" <moinejf@free.fr>,
"linux-media\@vger.kernel.org" <linux-media@vger.kernel.org>,
Andy Walls <awalls@md.metrocast.net>,
eduardo.valentin@nokia.com,
"ext Eino-Ville Talvala" <talvala@stanford.edu>,
Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Illuminators and status LED controls
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:55:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87aanrcsn9.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201009090825.52050.hverkuil@xs4all.nl> (Hans Verkuil's message of "Thu, 9 Sep 2010 08:25:51 +0200")
>>>>> "Hans" == Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> writes:
Hi,
>> - the status LED should be controlled by the LED interface.
Hans> I originally was in favor of controlling these through v4l as
Hans> well, but people made some good arguments against that. The main
Hans> one being: why would you want to show these as a control? What is
Hans> the end user supposed to do with them? It makes little sense.
Hans> Frankly, why would you want to expose LEDs at all? Shouldn't this
Hans> be completely hidden by the driver? No generic application will
Hans> ever do anything with status LEDs anyway. So it should be the
Hans> driver that operates them and in that case the LEDs do not need
Hans> to be exposed anywhere.
It's not that it *HAS* to be exposed - But if we can, then it's nice to do
so as it gives flexibility to the user instead of hardcoding policy in
the kernel.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-09 6:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-07 20:33 [PATCH] Illuminators and status LED controls Andy Walls
2010-09-08 2:16 ` Eino-Ville Talvala
2010-09-08 7:59 ` Eduardo Valentin
2010-09-08 16:37 ` Andy Walls
2010-09-08 18:58 ` Peter Korsgaard
2010-09-08 19:27 ` Alex Deucher
2010-09-09 4:07 ` Andy Walls
2010-09-13 7:00 ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-09-09 6:07 ` Jean-Francois Moine
2010-09-09 6:25 ` Hans Verkuil
2010-09-09 6:55 ` Peter Korsgaard [this message]
2010-09-09 11:17 ` Hans de Goede
2010-09-09 13:29 ` Hans Verkuil
2010-09-09 11:48 ` Hans de Goede
2010-09-13 7:04 ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-09-13 8:06 ` Hans Verkuil
2010-09-13 11:45 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-09-13 13:49 ` Andy Walls
2010-09-13 14:38 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2010-09-16 10:09 ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-09-10 13:40 ` Andy Walls
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-09-09 14:41 Andy Walls
2010-09-09 13:17 ` Hans de Goede
2010-09-09 21:37 ` Andy Walls
2010-09-09 14:14 Andy Walls
2010-09-09 13:16 ` Hans de Goede
2010-09-09 14:01 Andy Walls
2010-09-09 14:17 ` Hans Verkuil
2010-09-09 19:26 ` Peter Korsgaard
2010-09-10 0:49 ` Andy Walls
2010-09-10 7:19 ` Peter Korsgaard
2010-09-10 13:30 ` Andy Walls
2010-09-07 16:35 Andy Walls
2010-09-06 18:11 Jean-Francois Moine
2010-09-07 7:16 ` Hans de Goede
2010-09-07 7:30 ` Hans Verkuil
2010-09-07 9:42 ` Hans de Goede
2010-09-07 9:44 ` Hans de Goede
2010-09-07 9:47 ` Hans Verkuil
2010-09-07 11:59 ` Hans de Goede
2010-09-07 14:50 ` Hans Verkuil
2010-09-07 13:04 ` Hans de Goede
2010-09-07 15:30 ` Hans Verkuil
2010-09-07 17:57 ` Jean-Francois Moine
2010-09-07 18:42 ` Hans Verkuil
2010-09-07 21:21 ` Hans Verkuil
2010-09-07 22:29 ` Theodore Kilgore
2010-09-08 5:17 ` Hans Verkuil
2010-09-07 21:14 ` Hans de Goede
2010-09-09 6:55 ` Hans Verkuil
2010-09-09 11:15 ` Hans de Goede
2010-09-09 13:38 ` Hans Verkuil
2010-09-13 6:53 ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-09-13 6:47 ` Laurent Pinchart
2010-09-13 6:59 ` Hans Verkuil
2010-09-07 19:12 ` Eduardo Valentin
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