On 1/22/06, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 17:53 +0100, Paul T.Threshold wrote: > > On 1/18/06, Kasper Jordaens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > cool patch! > > :-) > > > > > will it cause trouble when the HD-activity blinking is enabled in the > > > kernel? > > i think not. to be honest i didn't yet tried it with 2.6.15 kernel, > > since in this i didn't enabeld hd led... > > i'll try when i'll reboot.... > > when, don't know i. > > Whe should move the blink code out of the ide driver then to some common > place. It's carefuly written to avoid too much locks in the hot path, > and can be called pretty much at any time, it will trigger a "blink" of > a given amount of ms.
i think i could make the effort... or better, to write a patch to get it working this way in the kernel... i need only directions on how to really do this, i mean, i need to know: . where i have to put the resulting source file (in which kernel src dir) . and what name i have to give to it... for the rest i think i can do it myself:-) tell me if i could try thanx, Paul _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
