Re: [PATCH v6 1/4] dt-bindings: net: phy: Add subnode for LED configuration

From: Matthias Kaehlcke
Date: Fri Aug 16 2019 - 18:04:16 EST


On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 10:13:38PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Please Cc led mailing lists on led issues.

sorry for missing this

> On Tue 2019-08-13 12:11:44, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > The LED behavior of some Ethernet PHYs is configurable. Add an
> > optional 'leds' subnode with a child node for each LED to be
> > configured. The binding aims to be compatible with the common
> > LED binding (see devicetree/bindings/leds/common.txt).
> >
> > A LED can be configured to be:
> >
> > - 'on' when a link is active, some PHYs allow configuration for
> > certain link speeds
> > speeds
> > - 'off'
> > - blink on RX/TX activity, some PHYs allow configuration for
> > certain link speeds
> >
> > For the configuration to be effective it needs to be supported by
> > the hardware and the corresponding PHY driver.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > @@ -173,5 +217,20 @@ examples:
> > reset-gpios = <&gpio1 4 1>;
> > reset-assert-us = <1000>;
> > reset-deassert-us = <2000>;
> > +
> > + leds {
> > + #address-cells = <1>;
> > + #size-cells = <0>;
> > +
> > + led@0 {
> > + reg = <0>;
> > + linux,default-trigger = "phy-link-1g";
> > + };
>
> Because this affects us.
>
> Is the LED software controllable?

it might be for certain PHYs, integration with the LED framework is
not part of this series.

> Or can it do limited subset of triggers you listed?

it depends on the PHY. The one in this series (RTL8211E) only supports
a limited subset of the listed triggers.