Re: [PATCH RFC] linux: net: phy: realtek: changing LED behaviour for RTL8211F

From: Michael Walle
Date: Thu Feb 09 2023 - 08:30:15 EST


> is this the right place to turn on the realtek phy LEDs for RTL8211F?

Probably not. There are a few issues. This will only work one particular
board. Therefore, you'd need some kind of runtime configuration to also
support other boards. But lately any LED related patches for PHYs were
NAK'd because they need to integrate with the LED subsystem. See [1].

-michael

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/YyxOTKJ8OTxXgWcA@xxxxxxx/