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Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2013 16:26:29 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com> Cc: linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mjg@...hat.com, rjw@...k.pl, len.brown@...el.com, dtor@...ightbb.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Input: atkbd - add LED triggers for keyboard state Hi! > 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. > > This patch wires in the caps, num, and scroll lock states of the > keyboard into the generic LED trigger subsystem, so that integrators can > have different LEDs activated on caps/num/scroll lock state changes. There's another patch floating around that properly integrates input with LED subsystem; it already contains this functionality IIRC. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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