Add keyboard blink driver
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@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/misc/Kconfig b/drivers/misc/Kconfig
index a3c525b..bfb02c1 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/misc/Kconfig
@@ -178,4 +178,13 @@
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 --git a/drivers/misc/Makefile b/drivers/misc/Makefile
index e325164..ece6baf 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/Makefile
+++ b/drivers/misc/Makefile
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
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 --git a/drivers/misc/blink.c b/drivers/misc/blink.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..634431c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/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);
+