linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add netdev led trigger

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Message-ID: <20101117195843.GA31357@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Wed, 17 Nov 2010 20:58:43 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Eric Cooper <ecc@....edu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add netdev led trigger

Hi!

> > > Add a netdev LED trigger for all Blinkenlights lovers...
> > > Originally taken from https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2776
> > > Slightly updated for 2.6.24 by Mickey Lauer <mickey@...nmoko.org>
> > > and for 2.6.36 by Eric Cooper <ecc@....edu>
> > 
> > Nice!
> > 
> > > +/*
> > > + * Configurable sysfs attributes:
> > > + *
> > > + * device_name - network device name to monitor
> > > + *
> > > + * interval - duration of LED blink, in milliseconds
> > 
> > This needs to go to Doc/ somewhere.
> 
> Documentation/ABI is the correct place for it.

I was hoping you'd comment on the ABI itself, too. It uses 

echo "foo bar baz" > file

to enable/disable specific events to be "displayed". More traditional
interface would be 

echo disable > file_foo

...
								Pavel
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