Re: [PATCH V3] led: Backlight trigger for led subsystem

[Pavel Machek]

On Tue 2008-10-07 21:21:12, Rodolfo Giometti wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 08:58:46PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, what is it good for? So I have backlight, charging led and hdd led
> > on my zaurus. Now I can set charging led to indicate backlight... but
> > why is it useful?
> 
> On my board, for example, I have a led for each "special" buttons and
> others to indicate to the user some "special" conditions of machine
> internals. All these leds should be switched off each time the LCD
> blanks and they should get their old brightness status when the LCD
> unblanks.

Hmm, what's "your board"?

But ok, I guess that makes some sense, additionally it would be useful
for keyboard backlight...

In fact, thinkpad light should probably behave like that, too...
								Pavel
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