@Adam Porter: Exactly. I thought I had addressed this in my response,
but yours is even clearer.

@mac_v: "Blinking is the default behavior in several other laptops [in
Windows also" - I have used many laptops (I work in IT) and have *never*
seen one who's default wireless light behaviour is to flash the user
visible light all the time. Even on Windows.

#176090 appears initially to be about the light being off (as opposed to doing 
something), but later turns into 'it used to flash, now it is steady'. 
My experience over a number of versions has been the light went from always-on 
to always-off to flashing-always to fixed-with-the-help-of-the-script-here.
Therefore the correct fix for everyone would be to keep this configurable but 
default it to how it was i.e. always-on or the more useful 
always-on-when-connected-flash-when-connecting-off-when-disconnected.

I'm not sure what you mean about "all the different laptops manufactured need 
to be matched". Either change the default in the kernel source with a 
Ubuntu-specific patch, or add the scripted commands via the laptop-mode package 
(etc. etc.). 
The 'cat' is harmless if the files don't exist, but it's trivial to check for 
the files existence first, for instance.

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