Re: [PATCH 10/11] LED: Add IDE disk activity LED trigger

[Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>]

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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