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From: Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>
To: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, jeff@garzik.org,
	linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@openedhand.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ata: ahci: Enable enclosure management via LED (resend)
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:32:17 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200710260132.19049.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071025145047.1c5e96f3.kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>

On Thursday 25 October 2007, Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
> I did look into using the LED class for this, but it didn't appropriate
> as I wanted the leds to be associated with a particular disk, and not
> with the platform as a whole.  It seemed to me that the led_class was 
> a bit of overkill for what we needed to do here, since we just need 
> on/off and nothing else.

Maybe. But didn't you want mdadm to control it? Then it would make sense.

But you have a point in the LED API missing the ability to associate 
a LED to a specific device (e.g. where it is installed :-).

So I'm fine either way, since I see you point.


Best Regards

Ingo Oeser

      reply	other threads:[~2007-10-25 23:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-24 22:58 Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-10-25  5:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-25  7:35   ` David Härdeman
2007-10-25 21:35 ` Ingo Oeser
2007-10-25 21:47   ` Richard Purdie
2007-10-25 21:50   ` Kristen Carlson Accardi
2007-10-25 23:32     ` Ingo Oeser [this message]

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