Re: [PATCH 10/11] LED: Add IDE disk activity LED trigger

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > These solutions are going to end up with a lot of unused led triggers on
> > any given system. 
> 
> Perhaps a generic solution isn't feasible, because this isn't really a
> generic problem. The LED stuff has very limited use - you mention
> embedded platforms, perhaps they should just be doing this on their
> own?

LEDs need userland API to be useful in some cases (mail LED). At that
point saying "everybody make your own API" is very bad idea.

(And we have old, ARM-private API at least, already. Idea is to do it
once and do it right).
								Pavel
-- 
Thanks, Sharp!
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