On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 15:54 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Florian Fainelli wrote: > >> Besides missing a declaration and not linking without the network > >> LED config option, its pretty ridiculous to call this for every > >> packet just to make a led blink. > >> > > > > Could you suggest me a better way to do so ? The code was highly inspired > > from > > what is done with the IDE trigger. The declaration is done in linux/leds.h, > > which is included in dev.c for that purpose. > > > > Maybe just increment a variable and periodically check it or something > like that.
Are there not already packet counters that the LED trigger could just look at? If it did that at say 20Hz or 10Hz, it would probably look quite reasonable without impacting on the system too much? Richard - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
