Comment 70 for bug 251252

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Scott Armitage
<email address hidden> wrote:
> Luckilly for both of you, Launcpad *does* hide e-mail addresses from anyone
> that is not logged in, and it does this automatically. Øyvind, until I
> logged in, instead of your e-mail address I saw "<email address hidden>".
>

Ha, great, all is as it should be :)

> Back on-topic:
>
> 1) I would like to test this out but am not confident in my compiling
> abilities; I will wait until the appropriate packages are ready.
>

Same here. Plus if I compile it and it doesn't work, I'll not know
whether to blame myself or the driver :)

> 2) @ MattJ: Your current non-blinking status is actually "not as intended";
> one of the fixes here is making the LED blink like it is "supposed" to. As
> to whether or not it *should* blink, when Øyvind said that blinking was the
> default, he meant from the manufacturer. Their intention is that the LED
> would blink during transfer. As such, under Linux, the LED should blink
> during transfer. I agree with you in that this could be an option, however
> this adds more or less un-needed complexity. You could always make the
> relevent changes in the source and re-compile for yourself. Having an actual
> option is only worth it if there are a lot of people that would prefer the
> LED not to blink.
>

I believe it is though. I am quite sure it doesn't blink under
Windows. Been a while since I used that though.

If this update suddenly gives me a blinking LED, put me on the list of
people who want it optional :)

Matthew.