Re: [net-next PATCH] net: phy: Validate PHY LED OPs presence before registering

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Oct 03 2024 - 18:51:53 EST


On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 12:33:17AM +0200, Christian Marangi wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 01:24:00AM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 04, 2024 at 12:12:48AM +0200, Christian Marangi wrote:
> > > Validate PHY LED OPs presence before registering and parsing them.
> > > Defining LED nodes for a PHY driver that actually doesn't supports them
> > > is wrong and should be reported.
> >
> > What about the case where a PHY driver gets LED support in the future?
> > Shouldn't the current kernel driver work with future device trees which
> > define LEDs, and just ignore that node, rather than fail to probe?
>
> Well this just skip leds node parse and return 0, so no fail to probe.
> This just adds an error. Maybe I should use warn instead?

Yes, a phydev_warn() would be better.

Andrew