Re: [PATCH] 2.5.59 morse code panics

Vojtech Pavlik (vojtech@suse.cz)
Fri, 31 Jan 2003 18:59:27 +0100


On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 06:45:34PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 17:36, Dave Jones wrote:
> > As this patch further builds upon the previous one,
> > It'd take a complete change of mind on his part to take
> > this as it is.
>
> If its attached to atkbd then its not a PCism and its now
> nicely modularised in the atkbd driver. Providing we have
> a clear split between the core "morse sender" and the
> platform specific morse output device (do we want
> morse_ops 8)) it should be clean and you can write morse
> drivers for pc speaker, for non pc keyboard and even for
> soundblaster 8)

It should be in the keyboard.c file, using input_event() to blink the
LEDs. This way it'll work on all archs in 2.5.

I will not accept it as a patch for atkbd.c, unless there is a strong
reason to do it there.

-- 
Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs
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