On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Bob Copeland <me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:59 PM, John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 12:05:54PM +0200, Shahar Or wrote: >>> Adds support for the WiFi activity LED on the Dell Vostro A860 laptop. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Shahar Or <shahar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >>> --- >>> I hope this one is perfect. > > Thanks for the patch. As for getting a better solution to LEDs, I > trolled through the ACPI spec and code, and while various modules > do set up LED pins, there doesn't seem to be a way to generally > get that information from another module and it appears different > between each vendor. I am by no stretch expert in ACPI stuff > though. > > Luis, I've asked this before but maybe you know better now or know > whom to ask on your side. Atheros must have a way on Windows to > figure out the LED pin/polarity -- do you have any idea? Ath9k > uses the SREV but that seems to be insufficient for ath5k judging > by all the quirks. IIRC this is all mapped in the INF file, I thought I had released an INF file under the ISC license but it seems that's not the case, I can try to do that if it helps. Anyway, if we can move this sort of map to userspace it'd be neat as you'd just need a userspace file update. Only thing is how to do this in a generic way for all wireless drivers and if this is indeed useful for other drivers. Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
