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.
+
+
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