Re: [PATCH v4 1/3] leds: Introduce userspace leds driver

From: David Lechner
Date: Thu Sep 22 2016 - 12:45:55 EST


On 09/22/2016 08:43 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:16 PM, David Lechner <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

This driver creates a userspace leds driver similar to uinput.

Just out of curiosity: what is this used for?
The typical usecase evades me, so I'd really want to know.


Several use cases are explained in this thread:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/25/505


+See tools/leds/uledmon.c for an example userspace program.

Where is this program? Not in this patch for sure.

Yours,
Linus Walleij