From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753276AbaCGOEK (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2014 09:04:10 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:39738 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752306AbaCGOEI (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Mar 2014 09:04:08 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 15:04:03 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: atkbd - add LED triggers for keyboard state Message-ID: <20140307140403.GB17576@Nokia-N900> References: <1393794356-1754-1-git-send-email-Jason@zx2c4.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1393794356-1754-1-git-send-email-Jason@zx2c4.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun 2014-03-02 22:05:56, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote: > Many new laptop keyboards aren't shipping with LEDs in the keys for > caps lock, num lock, and scroll lock. They do, however, ship with many LEDs > for specialized functions that mostly go non-utilized by any current > Linux drivers. Having a caps lock LED is very helpful in early boot full > disk encryption, where a fancy GUI is not available to show that caps > lock is activated. There's already patch in akpm tree that does this... and more. Please help improving it.