Re: [PATCH v2] net: phy: marvell: Honor phy LED set by system firmware on a Dell hardware

[Andrew Lunn]

> One more idea:
> The hw reset default for register 16 is 0x101e. If the current value
> is different when entering config_init then we could preserve it
> because intentionally a specific value has been set.
> Only if we find the hw reset default we'd set the values according
> to the current code.

We can split the problem into two.

1) I think saving LED configuration over suspend/resume is not an
issue. It is probably something we will be needed if we ever get PHY
LED configuration via sys/class/leds.

2) Knowing something else has configured the LEDs and the Linux driver
should not touch it. In general, Linux tries not to trust the
bootloader, because experience has shown bad things can happen when
you do. We cannot tell if the LED configuration is different to
defaults because something has deliberately set it, or it is just
messed up, maybe from the previous boot/kexec, maybe by the
bootloader. Even this Dell system BIOS gets it wrong, it configures
the LED on power on, but not resume !?!?!. And what about reboot?

So i really would like the bootloader to explicitly say it has
configured the LEDs and it takes full responsibility for any and all
bad behaviour as a result.

	  Andrew