Re: [PATCH RFC] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Support LED control

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Sun Nov 26 2023 - 15:11:45 EST


On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 5:45 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 12:46:03AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 5:13 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > What i would really like to see happen is that the DSA core handles
> > > the registration of the LEDs, similar to how phylib does. The DT
> > > binding should be identical for all DSA devices, so there is no need
> > > for each driver to do its own parsing.
> > >
> > > There are some WIP patches at
> > >
> > > https://github.com/lunn/linux.git leds-offload-support-reduced-auto-netdev
> > >
> > > which implement this. Feel free to make use of them.
> >
> > Oh it's quite a lot of patches, I really cannot drive that because there are
> > so many things about them that I don't understand the thinking behind...
> > But I like what I see!
>
> O.K. Let me dust them off, rebase them on net-next and see what is
> missing.

Thanks Andrew, appreciated!

I'll be happy to rebuild it on top of what you put as the baseline,
hopefully it will help Christian with the qca8k support as well?

> You have some fibre things i don't have. I don't have a
> machine with fibre so i cannot test that.

I can test that, the way I check for its presence is through device tree looking
for an "sfp" phandle, AFAICT I don't see that the hardware can tell be
when there
is a fiber connected, but alas I don't have any datasheet.

Yours,
Linus Walleij