Re: [PATCH v2] add netdev led trigger

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Nov 29 2010 - 05:16:00 EST


Eric Cooper <ecc@xxxxxxx> writes:

> Add a netdev LED trigger for all Blinkenlights lovers...
> Originally taken from https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/2776
> Slightly updated for 2.6.24 by Mickey Lauer <mickey@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> and for 2.6.36 by Eric Cooper <ecc@xxxxxxx>

You should really send this to netdev too.

Some comments:

The timer seems power unfriendly -- it will always tick even if nothing
happens.

Using the device name as an identifier is not reliable, they may
not be unique.

rwlocks are deprecated.

your store code has a off by one I think, it's possible to put
not 0 terminated data in the string.


-Andi

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