Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 4 Feb 2006 10:54:14 +0100 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 10/11] LED: Add IDE disk activity LED trigger |
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On Wed, 2006-02-01 17:09:06 +0100, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de> wrote: > >Add an LED trigger for IDE disk activity to the IDE subsystem. > > Since I am not a real user of the led subsystem - what LED should be lit > anyway? only the motherboard one does, and it seems to be connected > directly to the IDE chip - I would want this as a compile-time option so I > don't pay any extra time for any led stuff.
Well, look at PARISC. These machines do have a HDD LED, but it needs to be manually driven by the I/O subsystem.
The same would be for PCMCIA-attached ATA drives, where some embedded stuff has a HDD LED, which is GPIO-connected.
MfG, JBG
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