This adds two new disk triggers for triggering on reads
and writes respectively, named "disk-read" and "disk-write".
The use case comes from working on the D-Link DNS-313 NAS
box. This features an RGB LED for disk activity. with
these two triggers I can couple the green LED to read
activity and the red LED to write activity, which gives
the appropriate user feedback about what is happening
on the disk. When tested it gave exactly the feedback
desired.
The in-kernel interface is simply changed to pass a bool
indicating if the activity is write activity and update
each trigger (and the composite "disk-activity" trigger)
depending on what is passed in.
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com>
This patch converts the IDE specific LED trigger to a generic disk
activity LED trigger. The libata core is now a trigger source just
like before the IDE disk driver. It's merely a replacement of the
string ide by disk.
The patch is taken from http://dev.gentoo.org/~josejx/ata.patch and is
widely used by any ibook/powerbook owners with great satisfaction.
Likewise, it is very often used successfully on different ARM platforms.
Unlike the original patch, the existing 'ide-disk' trigger is still
available for backward compatibility. That reduce the amount of patches
in affected device trees out of the mainline kernel. For further
development, the new name 'disk-activity' should be used.
Cc: Joseph Jezak <josejx@gentoo.org>
Cc: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Stephan Linz <linz@li-pro.net>
Signed-off-by: Jacek Anaszewski <j.anaszewski@samsung.com>
Linus Walleij