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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Subject: Re: Network activity LED trigger
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:11:08 -0500
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Where are these LEDs typically located? Are you talking about LEDs on a
network card for example? can you light them up in different colors?

cheers,
jamal

On Fri, 2007-02-03 at 13:58 +0100, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Some more thoughts. The IDE activity LED trigger is currently triggered when a 
> function is called in the IDE writing/reading routines.
> 
> In a similar way, we could call the trigger function in net/core/dev.c in 
> netif_receive_skb and netif_rx ?
> 
> I was also thinking that some network NIC already have LEDs, so it is not 
> necessary for those models to "overload" the user with lights everywhere.
> 
> R