>>>>> "Hans" == Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> writes: Hi, >> - the status LED should be controlled by the LED interface. Hans> I originally was in favor of controlling these through v4l as Hans> well, but people made some good arguments against that. The main Hans> one being: why would you want to show these as a control? What is Hans> the end user supposed to do with them? It makes little sense. Hans> Frankly, why would you want to expose LEDs at all? Shouldn't this Hans> be completely hidden by the driver? No generic application will Hans> ever do anything with status LEDs anyway. So it should be the Hans> driver that operates them and in that case the LEDs do not need Hans> to be exposed anywhere. It's not that it *HAS* to be exposed - But if we can, then it's nice to do so as it gives flexibility to the user instead of hardcoding policy in the kernel. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
