On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 10:15:53PM +0200, Fabio Baltieri wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 09:11:28AM +0200, Kurt Van Dijck wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 03, 2012 at 10:54:49PM +0200, Oliver Hartkopp wrote: > > > On 03.09.2012 20:29, Fabio Baltieri wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > The name of the device can only be changed when the interface is down. > > > Is it possible to put some scripting around it to detach and attach the > > > leds > > > to the interfaces on ifup/ifdown triggers? > > > > Are the led triggers available for using while the netdev is down then? > > Sure! On embedded systems triggers are usually attached to actual LEDs > at probe time using default_trigger field of struct led_classdev, and > that can be specified both in machine files or in device tree.
I also think that led triggers should be available. I asked the question because detach & attach leds to interfaces would indeed break that. btw, I tried to send a patch tuesday (my first $ git send-email) using netdev notifiers: did you receive it, and what do you think of it? Kurt -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
