[LEDE-DEV] [OpenWrt-Devel] LED uci policy for not actively used LEDs

[Karl Palsson]

Mathias Kresin <dev at kresin.me> wrote:
> 2016-11-10 16:41 GMT+01:00 Jo-Philipp Wich <jo at mein.io>:
> > Hi Karl,
> >
> > I think there is not much speaking against making the led init script
> > run earlier. I think it would make sense to have it START=11, right
> > after /etc/init.d/boot.
> 
> I've a TDW-8980 here, where the ath9k driver acts as GPIO
> controller for the wireless LED [0]. The wireless led is
> populated to sysfs only after the ath9k driver is loaded. This
> might take some time, since the ath9k EEPROM needs to be loaded
> from flash first to fixup an invalid PCI vendor and device id.
> 
> Long story short, changing the START param might lead to a
> start of the led init script before all referenced leds are
> available in sysfs. At the moment I see this issue already on
> the TDW-8980 on first boot. And yes, I know that a propper fix
> would be some kind of hotplug script.
> 

hehe, it's almost like a pile of shell scripts is a problematic
way of ordering startup, and we should build something that can
handle dependencies of interrelated items or something....

hang on...
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