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From: "Herbert Pötzl" <herbert@13thfloor.at>
To: Marc Giger <gigerstyle@gmx.ch>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, John Bradford <john@grabjohn.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pgw99@doc.ic.ac.uk
Subject: Re: PATCH : LEDs - possibly the most pointless kernel subsystem ever
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 21:16:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030730191658.GD7260@www.13thfloor.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030730210618.5af8e5bb.gigerstyle@gmx.ch>

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:06:18PM +0200, Marc Giger wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 20:56:59 +0200
> Herbert Pötzl <herbert@13thfloor.at> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 07:44:57PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:

[incredible useful info zapped here]

> > anyway, parport should be short circuit safe, so
> > the worst what could happen is, that the leds are
> > not working ;) ...
> 
> Are you sure?? I thought this is true for serial-port...

I said 'should', for serial it would have been 'must' ;)

http://www.amontec.com/ieee1284_electrical.shtml
or search for the IEEE docs ... 

modern chips work at ~15mA/2.5V ... according to spec

best,
Herbert

  reply	other threads:[~2003-07-30 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-30 16:08 PATCH : LEDs - possibly the most pointless kernel subsystem ever John Bradford
2003-07-30 17:44 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-30 18:50   ` Marc Giger
2003-07-30 19:05     ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-30 22:22     ` Brian McGroarty
2003-07-30 18:56   ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-30 19:02     ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-30 19:06     ` Marc Giger
2003-07-30 19:16       ` Herbert Pötzl [this message]
2003-07-31  8:31 ` jw schultz
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-30 18:50 John Bradford
2003-07-30 15:50 John Bradford
2003-07-30 12:27 "Andrey Borzenkov" 
2003-07-29 20:38 John Bradford
2003-07-29 20:37 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-29 21:34   ` Philip Graham Willoughby
2003-07-29 20:40 ` Randolph Bentson
2003-07-29 21:15   ` Ryan Flowers
2003-07-29 20:43 ` Eli Carter
2003-07-30  6:09   ` Tomas Szepe
2003-07-30  6:37   ` Helge Deller
2003-07-29 19:15 John Bradford
2003-07-29 19:51 ` Tim Hockin
2003-07-29 20:09 ` Joel Jaeggli
2003-07-29 21:20 ` Kent Borg
2003-07-29 21:44   ` Philip Graham Willoughby
2003-07-30 21:44     ` Mike Jagdis
2003-07-30 12:15 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-29 15:17 Philip Graham Willoughby
2003-07-29 18:00 ` Pavel Machek
2003-07-30 11:45   ` Jamey Hicks
2003-07-30 12:27     ` 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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