From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752992Ab0CFMym (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Mar 2010 07:54:42 -0500 Received: from solo.fdn.fr ([80.67.169.19]:44448 "EHLO solo.fdn.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752758Ab0CFMyj (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Mar 2010 07:54:39 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1411 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Sat, 06 Mar 2010 07:54:39 EST Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 13:30:58 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault To: Pavel Machek Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , "H. Peter Anvin" , Alexey Dobriyan , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, mgarski@post.pl, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik , Richard Purdie Subject: Re: [PATCH] Route kbd leds through the generic leds layer (3rd version) Message-ID: <20100306123058.GE5203@const.famille.thibault.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Samuel Thibault , Pavel Machek , Dmitry Torokhov , "H. Peter Anvin" , Alexey Dobriyan , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, mgarski@post.pl, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik , Richard Purdie References: <20100224012010.GA4062@const> <20100225013840.GA5519@const.homenet.telecomitalia.it> <20100225102056.GG10823@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20100225214403.GB9378@const.homenet.telecomitalia.it> <20100226035448.GA16797@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20100226103505.GB3992@const.homenet.telecomitalia.it> <20100306065457.GE28759@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20100306065457.GE28759@elf.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pavel Machek, le Sat 06 Mar 2010 07:54:57 +0100, a écrit : > > That being said, usermode tools which want to set up the modifiers and > > connect the input LEDs to them need an easy and proper way to do so. > > Having central input::numlock and such still seems a good thing. > > This is something where I'm not too sure. Opening few files in > sequence is not that hard to the userland so "group of leds" > abstraction does not make too much sense... But then userland has to monitor keyboard hotplug. At the moment, neither kbd nor console-setup use a daemon to handle keyboards, and I doubt their authors will be happy to have to. Samuel From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Samuel Thibault Subject: Re: [PATCH] Route kbd leds through the generic leds layer (3rd version) Date: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 13:30:58 +0100 Message-ID: <20100306123058.GE5203@const.famille.thibault.fr> References: <20100224012010.GA4062@const> <20100225013840.GA5519@const.homenet.telecomitalia.it> <20100225102056.GG10823@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20100225214403.GB9378@const.homenet.telecomitalia.it> <20100226035448.GA16797@core.coreip.homeip.net> <20100226103505.GB3992@const.homenet.telecomitalia.it> <20100306065457.GE28759@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from solo.fdn.fr ([80.67.169.19]:44448 "EHLO solo.fdn.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752758Ab0CFMyj (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Mar 2010 07:54:39 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100306065457.GE28759@elf.ucw.cz> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Pavel Machek Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , "H. Peter Anvin" , Alexey Dobriyan , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, mgarski@post.pl, linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik , Richard Purdie Pavel Machek, le Sat 06 Mar 2010 07:54:57 +0100, a =E9crit : > > That being said, usermode tools which want to set up the modifiers = and > > connect the input LEDs to them need an easy and proper way to do so= =2E > > Having central input::numlock and such still seems a good thing. >=20 > This is something where I'm not too sure. Opening few files in > sequence is not that hard to the userland so "group of leds" > abstraction does not make too much sense... But then userland has to monitor keyboard hotplug. At the moment, neither kbd nor console-setup use a daemon to handle keyboards, and I doubt their authors will be happy to have to. Samuel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html