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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

  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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