209028 – sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.24 please add iwlwifi led support patch

Bug 209028 - sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.24 please add iwlwifi led support patch

Summary: sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.24 please add iwlwifi led support patch

Status:	RESOLVED LATER

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High enhancement
Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers

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Reported:	2008-02-05 20:17 UTC by Mattheus Happe
Modified:	2008-02-07 12:17 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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iwlwifi led support patch from thinkpad-sources (iwlwifi-leds-v2-2.6.24-rc4.diff,14.30 KB, patch) 2008-02-05 20:18 UTC, Mattheus Happe	Details \| Diff
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Description Mattheus Happe 2008-02-05 20:17:12 UTC

Hi,
please add the iwlwifi-leds-v2-2.6.24-rc4.diff from the thinkpad-sources, which add wifi led support, so that iwlwifi can controll it like the old ipw driver.
Under http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/dev/jokey/trunk/sys-kernel/thinkpad-sources/files/2.6.24-r1/iwlwifi-leds-v2-2.6.24-rc4.diff
you can find the patch.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Mattheus Happe 2008-02-05 20:18:22 UTC

Created attachment 142747 [details, diff]
iwlwifi led support patch from thinkpad-sources

Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-05 20:19:32 UTC

Please review http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches/faq.htm for similar requests...

Comment 3 Mike Pagano gentoo-dev

2008-02-06 01:22:25 UTC

Jakub is right and thanks for the link, as I hope it helps others to understand our policy.

Our policy is to usually wait until a change has been committed to Linus' git
repo before we backport it to gentoo-sources.

Comment 4 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-02-07 12:17:24 UTC

This patch probably won't be accepted as-is, instead an LED abstraction will be improved in mac80211 and things will be controlled that way. Given this is not a bug (it's just a missing feature) I'm going to close this. Rest assured that people are working on the feature and it will appear in upstream kernel releases at some point in the near future.