On Tue, 28 May 1996, Mike Hibler wrote:

> > Would anyone be offended if "options USELEDS" went away and became
> > the default?
>
> I ifdef'ed it in the first place because some machines (320/350/370/etc.)
> have the LEDs on the CPU board and they aren't all that visible from the
> outside.  That and maybe some people just don't care about lights and don't
> want to pay the overhead to "run" them (though I suspect the overhead is
> really negligible...)

What if someone wants to tweak their kernel so that they can use the LEDs
to indicate something else, perhaps for performance monitoring?  It would
be nice if they could easily turn off the default LED usage.
the default

			---  Truck