linux-kernel - Re: blink driver power saving

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Message-ID: <20070712091043.GB1866@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jul 2007 11:10:43 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...ightbb.com>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Indan Zupancic <indan@....nu>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, bwalle@...e.de
Subject: Re: blink driver power saving

Hi!

> > > I'll take patches. Ofcourse we'll have to keep the current EV_LED interface
> > > for compatibility.
> > 
> > Here's a working version. For some reason, it only works with capslock
> > led. (But so does your code, is that thinkpad problem?)
> 
> My code does blink NumLock on my box (Dell) so I wonder why it does not
> on your box...

setleds does not work here, either, so...

> Anyway, as far as the patch goes - I don't think we want to do it this
> way for a couple of reasons:
> 
> 1. It does not reflect the true device hierarchy - LEDs are not children
> of input devices, they are children of whatever device that owns input
> device. So in case of AT keyboard LEDs should grow from corresponding
> serio port, not input device and so atkbd should register all of its
> leds.

I'm not sure what you mean here. Should the code be moved to atkbd.c?
...and then duplicated to usbkbd.c?

> 2. LEDs will stop working if input device is grabbed via EVIOCSGRAB.
> I think that grab should not cross subsystem boundaries.

Well, if userspace grabbed a LED, it would make sense to stop blinking
it from heartbeat, no?
								Pavel
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