From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S272864AbTG3NAW (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:00:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S272871AbTG3NAW (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:00:22 -0400 Received: from kweetal.tue.nl ([131.155.3.6]:9733 "EHLO kweetal.tue.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S272864AbTG3NAS (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jul 2003 09:00:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 15:00:15 +0200 From: Andries Brouwer To: CaT Cc: Philip Graham Willoughby , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: PATCH : LEDs - possibly the most pointless kernel subsystem ever Message-ID: <20030730130015.GA2507@win.tue.nl> References: <20030729151701.GA6795@bodmin.doc.ic.ac.uk> <20030730063657.GH1395@zip.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030730063657.GH1395@zip.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 04:36:57PM +1000, CaT wrote: > Would this (now or in the future) by any chance let one use the keyboard > leds for stuff without activating their num lock, caps lock and scroll > lock functionality? I'd like to use one of them (at least) as a network > traffic indicator but so far I get the sideffects of the functionality > being on also. Most annoying when typing. :/ The use of LEDs as random lights instead of as keyboard status indicators has been possible since very early times. See the kernel code, or setleds(1).