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Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Extend the LED panic trigger

From Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Extend the LED panic trigger
Date 2016-04-29 00:30 +0200
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On Thu 2016-04-28 19:03:37, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> As per commit 916fe619951f ("leds: trigger: Introduce a kernel
> panic LED trigger"), the kernel now supports a new LED trigger
> to hook on the panic blink.
> 
> However, the only way of using this is to dedicate a LED device,
> making it rather useless.
> 
> To overcome this limitation, the present series introduces the
> capability to switch the LED trigger of certain LED devices upon
> a kernel panic (using the panic notifier).
> 
> The decision of which LEDs should be switched to the panic trigger
> is left to each LED device driver. As an example, a devicetree
> boolean property is introduced and used in the leds-gpio driver.
> 
> The big change in this v3 is that I've moved the panic trigger
> switching away from the core code and it's now part of
> ledtrig-panic.c. Pavel, Jacek: How does it look?

Seems better now. Thanks for doing that.

For the series:

Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
									Pavel
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[PATCH v3 0/3] Extend the LED panic trigger Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel@vanguardiasur.com.ar> - 2016-04-29 00:10 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Extend the LED panic trigger Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> - 2016-04-29 00:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Extend the LED panic trigger Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com> - 2016-04-29 21:00 +0200

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