From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>,
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] LED: Add IDE disk activity LED trigger
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 12:07:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060202110738.GA2151@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060131203552.GG4215@suse.de>
Hi!
> > These solutions are going to end up with a lot of unused led triggers on
> > any given system.
>
> Perhaps a generic solution isn't feasible, because this isn't really a
> generic problem. The LED stuff has very limited use - you mention
> embedded platforms, perhaps they should just be doing this on their
> own?
LEDs need userland API to be useful in some cases (mail LED). At that
point saying "everybody make your own API" is very bad idea.
(And we have old, ARM-private API at least, already. Idea is to do it
once and do it right).
Pavel
--
Thanks, Sharp!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-02 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-31 13:41 [PATCH 10/11] LED: Add IDE disk activity LED trigger Richard Purdie
2006-01-31 14:46 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-01-31 16:21 ` Richard Purdie
2006-01-31 17:44 ` Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
2006-01-31 20:29 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-31 22:08 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-01-31 23:39 ` Richard Purdie
2006-02-04 15:29 ` Richard Purdie
2006-01-31 20:35 ` Jens Axboe
2006-01-31 21:22 ` Jordan Crouse
2006-02-01 0:12 ` Matt Reimer
2006-02-02 1:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-01-31 22:03 ` [PATCH 10/11] " Richard Purdie
2006-02-02 11:07 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-02-01 16:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-02-04 9:54 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
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