netdev - Re: [PATCH] Add a network activity LED trigger

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Message-Id: <200707181544.11890.florian.fainelli@telecomint.eu>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:44:11 +0200
From:	Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...ecomint.eu>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rpurdie@...ys.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a network activity LED trigger

Hello Patrick,

Le mercredi 18 juillet 2007, Patrick McHardy a écrit :
> Module isn't possible, you call the led trigger from net/core/dev.c.

You are right, it just occured to me.

> Besides missing a declaration and not linking without the network
> LED config option, its pretty ridiculous to call this for every
> packet just to make a led blink.

Could you suggest me a better way to do so ? The code was highly inspired from 
what is done with the IDE trigger. The declaration is done in linux/leds.h, 
which is included in dev.c for that purpose.

Thank you very much for your answer.

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