Werner Almesberger wrote:
Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
a) This hardcoded behaviour should be configurable
(CONFIG_HARDCODED_CHARGING_LED) for people who rather want userland to be in
control of the LEDs.
Indeed. In fact, this is something that should be handled completely
in user space, without more kernel involvement than providing a means
to efficiently determine the charging state and changes to it.
What if we want to emit some sound instead of or in addition to the
LED ? Similar for special LED effects (blinking speed, duty cycle,
etc.)
There kernel is not the kind of entity that should connect such
things.
- Werner
I agree. I would like to strongly protest to having any functionality
like this in the kernel. I am OK with the boot loader doing something
like this, but the kernel should not be providing application-type
behavior. I want to control what the LEDs do myself.
