linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Extend the LED panic trigger

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Message-ID: <20160428222219.GA2155@amd>
Date:	Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:22:19 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@...guardiasur.com.ar>
Cc:	linux-leds@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>,
	Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@...sung.com>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Extend the LED panic trigger

On Thu 2016-04-28 19:03:37, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> As per commit 916fe619951f ("leds: trigger: Introduce a kernel
> panic LED trigger"), the kernel now supports a new LED trigger
> to hook on the panic blink.
> 
> However, the only way of using this is to dedicate a LED device,
> making it rather useless.
> 
> To overcome this limitation, the present series introduces the
> capability to switch the LED trigger of certain LED devices upon
> a kernel panic (using the panic notifier).
> 
> The decision of which LEDs should be switched to the panic trigger
> is left to each LED device driver. As an example, a devicetree
> boolean property is introduced and used in the leds-gpio driver.
> 
> The big change in this v3 is that I've moved the panic trigger
> switching away from the core code and it's now part of
> ledtrig-panic.c. Pavel, Jacek: How does it look?

Seems better now. Thanks for doing that.

For the series:

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
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