NOTE: The LED code has been reported to hang some systems when
running ifconfig and is therefore disabled by default.
git blame Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200
826d2abe (James Ketrenos 2005-11-07 18:56:59 -0600 315) NOTE: The LED code has been reported to hang some systems when
commit 826d2abe9945372c8838398bfd88a1caa5844d41
Author: James Ketrenos <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Nov 7 18:56:59 2005 -0600
So, based on the fact that information was added in late 2005 and we're now in 2009 and I've not seen any crash reports related to LED being enabled I think we should push this forward.
Documentation/ networking/ README. ipw2200 says:
NOTE: The LED code has been reported to hang some systems when
running ifconfig and is therefore disabled by default.
git blame Documentation/ networking/ README. ipw2200
826d2abe (James Ketrenos 2005-11-07 18:56:59 -0600 315) NOTE: The LED code has been reported to hang some systems when
commit 826d2abe9945372 c8838398bfd88a1 caa5844d41
Author: James Ketrenos <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Nov 7 18:56:59 2005 -0600
So, based on the fact that information was added in late 2005 and we're now in 2009 and I've not seen any crash reports related to LED being enabled I think we should push this forward.