Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:40:46 -0700 | From | Randolph Bentson <> | Subject | Re: PATCH : LEDs - possibly the most pointless kernel subsystem ever |
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 09:38:52PM +0100, John Bradford wrote: > Ah, I just thought, for debugging purposes we could have LEDs for: > > * BKL taken > * Servicing interrupt > * Kernel stack usage > 2K
In the way olden days we used the console lights for a realtime display of buffer use on a PDP-11. This type of realtime display can be most useful, especially if it's easily configurable.
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