[PATCH 00/17] Introduce a led trigger for CPU activity

Nicolas Pitre nicolas.pitre at linaro.org
Wed Jul 6 09:47:28 EDT 2011


On Wed, 6 Jul 2011, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 09:13:14PM +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
> > >  drivers/leds/ledtrig-cpu.c                     |  144 ++++++++++++
> > >  include/linux/leds.h                           |   15 ++
> > >  105 files changed, 1532 insertions(+), 3119 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Not bad, I like the numbers here. This is definitely a good move.
> > I had long ago wanted to remove those legacy LED code in mach-pxa.
> 
> The down-side is that through these moves we've lost functionality each
> time.  For example, the blinking heartbeat LED on the Assabet and
> Netwinder which I always enabled to let me know whether the machines
> were still alove has long since gone.

There exists a generic heartbeat LED trigger for that.  Making it the 
default for a particular LED should be trivial.


Nicolas


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