Re: [PATCH] blink: Only blink when parameter is set

2007-06-22 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > In fact it looks quite weird that one blink per 5 seconds can break the > > keyboard, in fact. > > Not wierd at all. The driver uses panic_blink - something that we expect > to work after panic. It rapidly polls KBC status register to detect when Aha. Can we get rid of that driver? It i

Re: [PATCH] blink: Only blink when parameter is set

2007-06-20 Thread Dmitry Torokhov
On Wednesday 20 June 2007 20:24, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > this has probably been already solved by proper throttling - see > > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/15/22 > > No, it was not. I still saw the problems with CONFIG_BLINK on, that is > > one blink

Re: [PATCH] blink: Only blink when parameter is set

2007-06-20 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > > this has probably been already solved by proper throttling - see > > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/15/22 > No, it was not. I still saw the problems with CONFIG_BLINK on, that is > one blink per 5 seconds or something. > We should rename CONFIG_BLINK to >

Re: [PATCH] blink: Only blink when parameter is set

2007-06-20 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > * It breaks keyboards. Yes, we are talking about maybe-broken i8042s, > > but it still breaks thinkpads at least. > > Hi Pavel, > > this has probably been already solved by proper throttling - see > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/15/22 No, it was not. I still saw the problems with CONF

Re: [PATCH] blink: Only blink when parameter is set

2007-06-20 Thread Jiri Kosina
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > * It breaks keyboards. Yes, we are talking about maybe-broken i8042s, > but it still breaks thinkpads at least. Hi Pavel, this has probably been already solved by proper throttling - see http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/6/15/22 -- Jiri Kosina - To unsubs

Re: [PATCH] blink: Only blink when parameter is set

2007-06-20 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > This patch in the blink driver changes the module to only blink when > the parameter 'blink' is set to true. This is to allow the module to > be compiled in the kernel and not as module. > > As the blink module was initially written for kdump, and as the kernel > is relocatable on lots of a

Re: [PATCH] blink: Only blink when parameter is set

2007-06-18 Thread Randy Dunlap
Bernhard Walle wrote: * Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-18 06:26]: +static int blink = 0; no need to init to 0. Does it harm? It adds space to the binary file in some cases and it is kernel convention not to init statics to NULL or 0 since that is already guaranteed for them. +m

Re: [PATCH] blink: Only blink when parameter is set

2007-06-18 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-06-18 06:26]: > > +static int blink = 0; > > no need to init to 0. Does it harm? > > +module_param(blink, bool, S_IRUGO); > > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(blink, "Enable blinking (without that, the module does > > nothing)\n"); > > unneeded "\n" Fixed. Please use

Re: [PATCH] blink: Only blink when parameter is set

2007-06-17 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 10:39:04 +0200 Bernhard Walle wrote: > This patch in the blink driver changes the module to only blink when > the parameter 'blink' is set to true. This is to allow the module to > be compiled in the kernel and not as module. > > As the blink module was initially written for k

Re: [PATCH] blink: Only blink when parameter is set

2007-06-17 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 10:39 +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > This patch in the blink driver changes the module to only blink when > the parameter 'blink' is set to true. This is to allow the module to > be compiled in the kernel and not as module. it also has a 1000Hz timer in it... which sucks pow