XPS M170 LED lights : howto control them under linux

[Michael E Brown]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:32:56PM -0500, Michael E Brown wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 07:18:52PM -0700, Ed H wrote:
> > Hi Michael (and Andreas)
> > 
> > I've attached a demo command-line program based on the dellWirelessCtl which
> > seems to be doing the trick on my XPS Gen2 system, please feel free to use it however
> > you see fit (I'm happy with whatever licensing the rest of the libsmbios package uses
> > and hereby relinquish all rights to the attached software to Dell). Apparently the media
> > LEDs aren't supported on my system so I didn't add the command-line args to program
> > them. I stole the color names from the LightFX SDK and hard-coded them in as a macro
> > list.

Ed,
    I've added this source to my source tree. I am quite impressed at the quality of the code. Thanks for the contribution, it looks really good.

    This will show up in my next beta release of code, probably tomorrow. After I have RPMs built and in the testing repo, I'll send out an announcement and ask for feedback. If there are no major problems, I'll probably make a 0.13.5 release later this week with your addition.

    I made only minor adjustments to the code. I converted tabs to spaces as my standard is expand tabs to spaces, with a 4 space indentation level. I also changed the attribution to have your name, since you did the work, not me. :) Aside from that, I made no code-level changes to it and do not intend to until I have a machine I can test on.

    As for the copyright stuff, I need to talk to a couple people about exactly how it needs to be handled because this is my first non-trivial outside contribution. I dont think there is anything special to be done, but I need to cover my bases.
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Michael