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Subject: Re: PATCH : LEDs - possibly the most pointless kernel subsystemever
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:06:43 +0200
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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