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From: "Ghozlane Toumi" <gtoumi@laposte.net>
To: "Jamey Hicks" <jamey.hicks@hp.com>, "Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Philip Graham Willoughby" <pgw99@doc.ic.ac.uk>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: PATCH : LEDs - possibly the most pointless kernel subsystemever
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:06:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <001101c35693$8e97cc40$0a00a8c0@toumi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1059565549.27394.9.camel@vimes.crl.hpl.hp.com

Hi,

You wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 14:00, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'd not said this is so pointless... handhelds tend to have "new mail"
led for example.
> > Better question is why it is not integrated with input subsystem
(similar to kbd leds).
>
> I would have thought that leds are output?  Why would output devices be
> integrated into the input subsystem?

Perhaps because the input subsystem could/should be renamed to event
subsytem ?

ghoz


  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-30 12:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-29 15:17 PATCH : LEDs - possibly the most pointless kernel subsystem ever Philip Graham Willoughby
2003-07-29 18:00 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-30 11:45   ` Jamey Hicks
2003-07-30 12:06     ` Ghozlane Toumi [this message]
2003-07-30 12:27       ` PATCH : LEDs - possibly the most pointless kernel subsystemever Philip Graham Willoughby
2003-07-30 12:39         ` Wichert Akkerman
2003-07-30 12:27     ` PATCH : LEDs - possibly the most pointless kernel subsystem ever Pavel Machek
2003-07-30  6:36 ` CaT
2003-07-30 13:00   ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-30 13:20     ` CaT
2003-07-30 23:28 ` Greg KH

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