libertas private ioctls

Deepak Saxena dsaxena at laptop.org
Fri Jun 12 16:01:13 EDT 2009


On Jun 11 2009, at 14:49, Daniel Drake was caught saying:
> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 08:42 +0000, Deepak Saxena wrote:
> > My quick answer is to move these forward from our old kernel. We can try 
> > pushing them upstream too but I would like to understand why we need them 
> > and if there are alternatives such as sysfs that we could use.
> 
> Would it be appropriate to include that specific command (ledgpio 1 1 2
> 12 3 16, whatever it is) in the kernel so that no userspace intervention
> is needed to turn the LEDs on?

I'm a little aprehensive about that option. Where would the command go?  
I'm wondering if this would be a good place for using platform device
data?

~Deepak





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