Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] leds: trigger: Create a new LED netdev trigger for collision

From: Russell King (Oracle)
Date: Thu Feb 29 2024 - 12:02:42 EST


On Thu, Feb 29, 2024 at 04:17:47PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 2) LEDs are the wild west, because it is not part of 802.3. Every
> vendor does it differently, and has their own special blinking
> patterns. My preference is to keep it simple to what people actually
> use. You cannot actually generate a collision, the developer who wants
> to add support for collision. I have to ask, is collision actually
> useful?

I'm not sure when you say "You cannot actually generate a collision"
whether you're referring to the link or the LEDs here? Obviously, we
can't detect a collision unless the hardware tells us that it happened.

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