Re: [PATCH] add netdev led trigger

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Nov 17 2010 - 14:56:50 EST


Hi!

> > > Add a netdev LED trigger for all Blinkenlights lovers...
> > > Originally taken from https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2776
> > > Slightly updated for 2.6.24 by Mickey Lauer <mickey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > and for 2.6.36 by Eric Cooper <ecc@xxxxxxx>
> >
> > Nice!
> >
> > > +/*
> > > + * Configurable sysfs attributes:
> > > + *
> > > + * device_name - network device name to monitor
> > > + *
> > > + * interval - duration of LED blink, in milliseconds
> >
> > This needs to go to Doc/ somewhere.
>
> Documentation/ABI is the correct place for it.

I was hoping you'd comment on the ABI itself, too. It uses

echo "foo bar baz" > file

to enable/disable specific events to be "displayed". More traditional
interface would be

echo disable > file_foo

...
Pavel
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