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Linux 6.18 To Support The Red & Green Status LEDs On QNAP NAS Devices

([Hardware] 6 Hours Ago LEDs)


The LED subsystem updates don't tend to be too exciting each kernel cycle but for those with QNAP network attached storage (NAS) devices and wanting to run the mainline kernel, now you can have working red and green status LEDs.

For those with QNAP NAS hardware, the Linux 6.18 kernel will enable the red/green status LEDs to be correctly operated. The status LEDs are connected to QNAP's Microcontroller Unit (MCU) that can now be controlled from the mainline Linux kernel using the leds-qnap-mcu driver.

That is the main highlight of the [1]LEDs update for Linux 6.18. There is also the new S31FL3236A LED driver as the other new LED hardware support for Linux 6.18.



[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20251001140109.GV8757@google.com/


We were young and our happiness dazzled us with its strength. But there was
also a terrible betrayal that lay within me like a Merle Haggard song at a
French restaurant. [...]
I could not tell the girl about the woman of the tollway, of her milk
white BMW and her Jordache smile. There had been a fight. I had punched her
boyfriend, who fought the mechanical bulls. Everyone told him, "You ride the
bull, senor. You do not fight it." But he was lean and tough like a bad
rib-eye and he fought the bull. And then he fought me. And when we finished
there were no winners, just men doing what men must do. [...]
"Stop the car," the girl said.
There was a look of terrible sadness in her eyes. She knew about the
woman of the tollway. I knew not how. I started to speak, but she raised an
arm and spoke with a quiet and peace I will never forget.
"I do not ask for whom's the tollway belle," she said, "the tollway
belle's for thee."
The next morning our youth was a memory, and our happiness was a lie.
Life is like a bad margarita with good tequila, I thought as I poured whiskey
onto my granola and faced a new day.
-- Peter Applebome, International Imitation Hemingway
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