Re: Font Led

[Michel Dänzer <daenzer@debian.org>]

On Die, 2010-09-14 at 22:01 +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: 
> * Mich Lanners [100914 21:15 +0200]:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On  14 Sep, this message from Elimar Riesebieter echoed through
> > cyberspace:
> > > does one know ho wto get the front led triggering on pata HD
> > > aktivity? This is on my PB G4 last generation.
> > 
> > On mine with a kernel 2.6.15, it's a kernel config option under
> > 
> > Device Drivers ->
> > 	ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support ->
> > 		Builtin PowerMac IDE support ->
> > 			suboption "Blink laptop LED on drive act."
> 
> Well this seems to work for HD's configured as ide drives. I don't
> use ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support but
> Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers ->
>         ATA BMDMA support ->
>                 Apple PowerMac/PowerBook internal 'MacIO' IDE
> 
> So my IDE Drive is declared as /dev/sda.
> 
> Device Drivers ->
>     Macintosh device drivers ->
>         Macintosh device drivers ->
>             Support for the Power/iBook front LED ->
>                 Use front LED as IDE LED by default
> 
> doesn't work in my case, though

TTBOMK the equivalent to CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGER_IDE_DISK just isn't
implemented yet for the ATA subsystem. Would be great if you could fix
this. :)


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