Re: [PATCH v3 4/6] block: introduce LED block device activity trigger

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2019年8月13日(火) 19:33 Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>:
>
> On Sun 2019-08-11 02:55:01, Akinobu Mita wrote:
> > This allows LEDs to be controlled by block device activity.
> >
> > We already have ledtrig-disk (LED disk activity trigger), but the lower
> > level disk drivers need to utilize ledtrig_disk_activity() to make the
> > LED blink.
> >
> > The LED block device trigger doesn't require the lower level drivers to
> > have any instrumentation. The activity is collected by polling the disk
> > stats.
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > echo block-nvme0n1 > /sys/class/leds/diy/trigger
>
> Some machines have lots of block devices... Should we perhaps have
> "echo block > trigger; echo nvme0n1 > device"?

I originally considered doing so, just like ledtrig-netdev. However, it
turned out that we needed an additional mechanism to mediate between
the led trigger registration and the block device unregistration.




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