The patch titled
Add keyboard blink driver
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
add-keyboard-blink-driver.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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Subject: Add keyboard blink driver
From: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxxxxx>
Simple driver that blinks the keyboard LEDs when loaded. Useful for
checking that the kernel is still alive or for crashdumping
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/Kconfig | 9 +++++++++
drivers/misc/Makefile | 1 +
drivers/misc/blink.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 37 insertions(+)
diff -puN drivers/misc/Kconfig~add-keyboard-blink-driver drivers/misc/Kconfig
--- a/drivers/misc/Kconfig~add-keyboard-blink-driver
+++ a/drivers/misc/Kconfig
@@ -178,4 +178,13 @@ config THINKPAD_ACPI_BAY
If you are not sure, say Y here.
+config BLINK
+ tristate "Keyboard blink driver"
+ help
+ Driver that when loaded will blink the keyboard LEDs continuously.
+ This is useful for debugging and for kernels that cannot necessarily
+ output something to the screen like kexec kernels to give the user
+ a visual indication that the kernel is doing something.
+
+
endmenu
diff -puN drivers/misc/Makefile~add-keyboard-blink-driver drivers/misc/Makefile
--- a/drivers/misc/Makefile~add-keyboard-blink-driver
+++ a/drivers/misc/Makefile
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ obj-$(CONFIG_IBM_ASM) += ibmasm/
obj-$(CONFIG_HDPU_FEATURES) += hdpuftrs/
obj-$(CONFIG_MSI_LAPTOP) += msi-laptop.o
obj-$(CONFIG_ASUS_LAPTOP) += asus-laptop.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_BLINK) += blink.o
obj-$(CONFIG_LKDTM) += lkdtm.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TIFM_CORE) += tifm_core.o
obj-$(CONFIG_TIFM_7XX1) += tifm_7xx1.o
diff -puN /dev/null drivers/misc/blink.c
--- /dev/null
+++ a/drivers/misc/blink.c
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+#include <linux/kernel.h>
+#include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/timer.h>
+#include <linux/jiffies.h>
+
+static void do_blink(unsigned long data);
+
+static DEFINE_TIMER(blink_timer, do_blink, 0 ,0);
+
+static void do_blink(unsigned long data)
+{
+ static long count;
+ if (panic_blink)
+ panic_blink(count++);
+ blink_timer.expires = jiffies + msecs_to_jiffies(1);
+ add_timer(&blink_timer);
+}
+
+static int blink_init(void)
+{
+ printk(KERN_INFO "Enabling keyboard blinking\n");
+ do_blink(0);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+module_init(blink_init);
+
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from ak@xxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
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