Re: [PATCH] ata: ahci: Enable enclosure management via LED (resend)

[Ingo Oeser]

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
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