netdev - Re: Network activity LED trigger

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Date:	Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:16:06 +0100
From:	Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...-evry.fr>
To:	hadi@...erus.ca
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
Subject: Re: Network activity LED trigger

Hi,

Le vendredi 2 mars 2007, jamal a écrit :
> Where are these LEDs typically located? Are you talking about LEDs on a
> network card for example? can you light them up in different colors?

Those LEDS are typically controlled by GPIO lines visible in front of the 
device. It is mostly targeted to embedded devices for which you do not 
necessarily want to assign a LED to a given network interface

>
> cheers,
> jamal
>
> On Fri, 2007-02-03 at 13:58 +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > R
>
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