Re: LED subsystem integration

Thomas Tuttle schrieb:
> Would anyone be interested in a patch to create LED triggers for the new
> LED subsystem in the kernel?  Right now, the ipw2200 driver works only
> with LEDs attached to the card, but there's a new subsystem in the
> kernel for generic LED classes (that display status information) and
> triggers (that generate status information).
>
> Separately, I've written a patch that links the LEDs on Asus laptops
> into the LED subsystem.  If I wrote a patch for ipw2200 that created LED
> triggers for the link and activity lights, then people who have LEDs
> that work with the LED subsystem, but aren't attached to the card, can
> use them.  Specifically, Asus laptop users could "attach" the ipw2200's
> link LED to their wireless LED with a single "echo ipw2200:link >
> /sys/class/leds/asus:wireless/trigger" (names of triggers and classes
> may change).
>
> I'm not sure how this would get integrated with the existing LED stuff.
> Probably it would just create the triggers no matter what, since (unlike
> the LED code) they won't cause trouble if they're not used.
>
> Comments are appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Thomas Tuttle
Hello!

I just remembered Thomas' project which in my eyes seems to be a useful
thing.
@Thomas: Do you need any help? If so, what can I do?

Greetings, Johannes

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