Re: [PATCH] Input: atkbd - add LED triggers for keyboard state

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Mar 07 2014 - 09:04:23 EST


On Sun 2014-03-02 22:05:56, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Many new laptop keyboards aren't shipping with LEDs in the keys for
> caps lock, num lock, and scroll lock. They do, however, ship with many LEDs
> for specialized functions that mostly go non-utilized by any current
> Linux drivers. Having a caps lock LED is very helpful in early boot full
> disk encryption, where a fancy GUI is not available to show that caps
> lock is activated.

There's already patch in akpm tree that does this... and more.

Please help improving it.
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