On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 00:47 +0100, Paul T.Threshold wrote:
> 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

You should join the existing discussion about the led code on lkml and
linux-ide lists

Ben.


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