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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Add keyboard blink driver
Hi!

> Add a blink driver for debugging
>
> Simple driver that blinks the keyboard LEDs when loaded. Useful
> for checking that the kernel is still alive or for crashdumping.

For checking if kernel is alive/crashdumping... can user just do
setleds +caps; sleep 1; setleds -caps; ... ? You can even have morse
code :-).

Besides, we now have led support framework in kernel, that can do
blinking by itself etc.
Pavel


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