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

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Date:	Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:54:56 +0200
From:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
To:	Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@...ecomint.eu>
CC:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rpurdie@...ys.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add a network activity LED trigger

Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> 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.
>   

Maybe just increment a variable and periodically check it or something
like that.


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