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Message-Id: <1193348845.5697.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:47:25 +0100 From: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...nedhand.com> To: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de> Cc: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@...el.com>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, jeff@...zik.org, linux-ide@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata: ahci: Enable enclosure management via LED (resend) On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 23:35 +0200, Ingo Oeser wrote: > On Thursday 25 October 2007, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote: > > Enable enclosure management via LED > > > > As described in the AHCI spec, some AHCI controllers may support > > Enclosure management via a variety of protocols. This patch > > adds support for the LED message type that is specified in > > AHCI 1.1 and higher. > > Linux has a LED subsystem for that. May I suggest, that you just register > these leds and let userspace handle them via that via the LED API? > > The LED userspace API is described in Documentation/leds-class.txt > and the headers for registering LEDs is linux/leds.h under include/ > > Since you explicitly WANT user space to control these, that should > be the right API. > > Richard, what do YOU think? If you're exporting LEDs to userspace, the LED API was designed to do just that... Cheers, Richard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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