On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> wrote: > Yeah, valid question. .... > > So, whenever the kernel hits such a WARNING(), all LEDs will blink. > Now after my patch, the 4 LEDs on the left side blink (they are currently > not used anyway), while Heartbeat, disk-IO and LAN in/out still work > as usual. So, you will notice the 4 LEDs at once as well, but in addition > you still have the possibility to see if LAN goes in/out (e.g. if you ping > the machine) or if the heartbeat still works (and so your machine should > still be reachable). The thing is that you have a machine with more than 4 LEDs. I have B180/B132s which have only 4 leds. Thus I won't notice anything when an Oops occurs. If you really don't want to have the old behaviour (which, again, I really found nice), how about having the heartbeat LED fixed when an oops occurs. Even better, a way to "reset" the state of the leds through /proc would solve both problems: an oops occurs, all/some leds flash/remain lit, you (try to) login, figure out the oops wasn't so serious, echo something > /proc/pdc/led and the LEDs start blinking normally again. Anyway, the key point here is that not all machines without LCD have more than 4 LEDs ;) Thoughts? Cheers, T-Bone -- Thibaut VARENE http://www.parisc-linux.org/~varenet/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
