Re: blink driver power saving

[Dmitry Torokhov]

On 7/2/07, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The patch makes sense. You don't need to poll every jiffie to find
> out if system has panic.  But I agree with Linus, it is the kind
> of patch that doesn't belong in the mainline kernel.  Every developer
> seems to have built up a set of crappy/fragile debug tools, but these
> don't belong in the wild.

Stephen,

The drivers blinks LEDs when kernel operates normally. During panic
the panic_blink() routine in i8042 gets called directly, without
involving the blink driver.

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Dmitry
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