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: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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

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

drivers/misc/blink.c

+#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);
+