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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, mgarski@post.pl,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Route kbd leds through the generic leds layer (3rd version)
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:25:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100307082519.GC1987@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100306123058.GE5203@const.famille.thibault.fr>

On Sat 2010-03-06 13:30:58, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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.

Okay, that makes some sense.

But you mentioned having per-keyboard led would be quite easy, it does
not seem to be controversial, so perhaps that's way to go, first?
									Pavel
-- 
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html

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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
	akpm@linux-found
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Route kbd leds through the generic leds layer (3rd version)
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 09:25:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100307082519.GC1987@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100306123058.GE5203@const.famille.thibault.fr>

On Sat 2010-03-06 13:30:58, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> 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.

Okay, that makes some sense.

But you mentioned having per-keyboard led would be quite easy, it does
not seem to be controversial, so perhaps that's way to go, first?
									Pavel
-- 
(english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek
(cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-07  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-24  1:20 [PATCH] Route kbd leds through the generic leds layer Samuel Thibault
2010-02-25  1:38 ` [PATCH] Route kbd leds through the generic leds layer (3rd version) Samuel Thibault
2010-02-25  1:38   ` Samuel Thibault
2010-02-25 10:20   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-02-25 10:20     ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-02-25 12:23     ` Richard Purdie
2010-02-25 21:47       ` Samuel Thibault
2010-02-25 21:47         ` Samuel Thibault
2010-02-25 21:44     ` Samuel Thibault
2010-02-25 21:44       ` Samuel Thibault
2010-02-26  3:54       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-02-26  3:54       ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-02-26 10:35         ` Samuel Thibault
2010-02-26 10:35           ` Samuel Thibault
2010-03-06  6:54           ` Pavel Machek
2010-03-06  6:54             ` Pavel Machek
2010-03-06 12:30             ` Samuel Thibault
2010-03-06 12:30               ` Samuel Thibault
2010-03-07  8:25               ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2010-03-07  8:25                 ` Pavel Machek
2010-03-07 12:06                 ` Samuel Thibault
2010-03-07 12:06                   ` Samuel Thibault
2010-03-06  6:52       ` Pavel Machek
2010-03-06  6:52       ` Pavel Machek

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