Re: Hard Drive light

[Cedric Pradalier <cedric.pradalier@inrialpes.fr>]

According to Benjamin Herrenschmidt, on Thu, 23 Dec 2004 14:57:03 +0100, 
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>> Thanks for your help. 
>> 
>> I could not find how to attach the sys entry to the ide interface,
>> but now, it is attached to the bus owning the IDE, either macio or pci according
>> to which 'attach' function is called. On my ibook, it is macio and I have no way to
>test> if the pci entry works fine. 
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>At the end of pmac_ide_setup_device(), after probe_hwif_init() (and
>after the test for !present) you have the fully probed hwif which should
>contain a device structure you can attach to, though it's not clear how
>to hook a cleanup function... but then, you probably don't need one
>neither, modularity isn't quite supported on ide pmac. Avoid attaching
>anything to the mediabay tho, that will cause more problems as the media
>bay is sort-of hotplug.
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>> In accord with popular demand, the blink by default is ON, and it can be disabled with
>> boot parameter ide_core.noblink, or through the /sys/bus/(macio|pci)/*/blinking_led
>> interface.
>> 
>> With the christmas break, I will not be able to work on that for a couple of week.
>> So if there is still modifications to do, they will have to wait, (or I don't mind if 
>> someone else handle them :). 
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>Ok, well, I may do my own changes, depends on how much time I can spare.
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>Ben.
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Hi ben, 

Did you have time to have a look at that ? As far as I can see, I actually attached to the
only struct device in the hwif. So it might be what you wanted.

Cedric