[LEDE-DEV] can swconfig turn out the LEDs?

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 14 September 2016 at 21:46, Alexandru Ardelean
<ardeleanalex at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 8:51 PM, Dave Taht <dave.taht at gmail.com> wrote:
>> recently a whole bunch of posts went around on network world,
>> slashdot, and elsewhere, about how to go about disabling or dimming
>> the leds.
>>
>> http://www.networkworld.com/article/3119881/mobile-wireless/the-scourge-of-leds-everywhere-readers-speak-out.html
>>
>> In my own post I'd found a way to nuke many lights, but not all. In
>> particular, is there a way to tell swconfig to turn out the light
>> entirely?
>>
> Would be interesting to try to implement.
> Disabling LEDs (entirely) looks pretty driver specific.
>
> The rtl8366 (variants), rtl8367 and ar8327 seem to implement in the
> driver, the blinkrate controls.
> For example, on the b53 driver there is no control for LEDs
> whatsoever, though technically the chip may support it.

Depends on PCB design. Most vendors use hardware connection, some don't.