netdev - Re: Network activity LED trigger

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Date:	Fri, 2 Mar 2007 13:58:51 +0100
From:	Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...-evry.fr>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
Subject: Re: Network activity LED trigger

Hi All,

Some more thoughts. The IDE activity LED trigger is currently triggered when a 
function is called in the IDE writing/reading routines.

In a similar way, we could call the trigger function in net/core/dev.c in 
netif_receive_skb and netif_rx ?

I was also thinking that some network NIC already have LEDs, so it is not 
necessary for those models to "overload" the user with lights everywhere.

Regars, Florian

Le jeudi 1 mars 2007, Florian Fainelli a écrit :
> Hi All,
>
> I have been talking a bit with Richard, who is the LED API maintainer, and
> a LED trigger based on network activity would be something great.
>
> There are somethings that concern the network stack :
>
> - should we specify if the network driver is allowed to contribute to
> the LED activity, just like it is done for random generation, at compile
> time
>
> - I would like to trigger the LED based on one or several network
> interfaces, maybe specify via sysfs which interface triggers which LED,
> and also maybe differentiate the layer-2 activity from the layer-3
> activity for instance
>
> - A led driver could by default be bound to a network driver, or an
> interface name
>
> As it could be very intrusive in the network stack, you might want to
> specify a bit more how you imagine a network activity trigger.
>
> Thanks
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