From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] led: Backlight trigger for led subsystem
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 21:56:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081007195648.GD6604@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081007192112.GL13035@tekkaman>
On Tue 2008-10-07 21:21:12, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 08:58:46PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >
> > Ok, what is it good for? So I have backlight, charging led and hdd led
> > on my zaurus. Now I can set charging led to indicate backlight... but
> > why is it useful?
>
> On my board, for example, I have a led for each "special" buttons and
> others to indicate to the user some "special" conditions of machine
> internals. All these leds should be switched off each time the LCD
> blanks and they should get their old brightness status when the LCD
> unblanks.
Hmm, what's "your board"?
But ok, I guess that makes some sense, additionally it would be useful
for keyboard backlight...
In fact, thinkpad light should probably behave like that, too...
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-07 19:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-07 10:10 [PATCH V3] led: Backlight trigger for led subsystem Rodolfo Giometti
2008-10-07 10:10 ` [PATCH 1/1] led: add a backlight emulation trigger Rodolfo Giometti
2008-10-13 8:28 ` Richard Purdie
2008-10-07 13:54 ` [PATCH V3] led: Backlight trigger for led subsystem Pavel Machek
2008-10-07 15:20 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2008-10-07 18:58 ` Pavel Machek
2008-10-07 19:21 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2008-10-07 19:56 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-10-07 20:19 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2008-10-07 20:39 ` Mark Brown
2008-10-07 21:19 ` Pavel Machek
2008-10-07 21:32 ` Rodolfo Giometti
2008-10-07 21:11 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
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