Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: phy: realtek: Add support for PHY LEDs on RTL8211E

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Mar 13 2025 - 12:45:29 EST


On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 08:36:27PM +0100, Michael Klein wrote:
> Like the RTL8211F, the RTL8211E PHY supports up to three LEDs.
> Add netdev trigger support for them, too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Klein <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/net/phy/realtek.c | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--

What tree is this based on?

ommit 1416a9b2ba710d31954131c06d46f298e340aa2c
Author: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Jan 11 21:50:19 2025 +0100

net: phy: move realtek PHY driver to its own subdirectory

In preparation of adding a source file with hwmon support, move the
Realtek PHY driver to its own subdirectory and rename realtek.c to
realtek_main.c.


https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/maintainer-netdev.html

> +static int rtl8211e_led_hw_control_get(struct phy_device *phydev, u8 index,
> + unsigned long *rules)
> +{
> + int oldpage, ret;
> + u16 cr1, cr2;
> +
> + if (index >= RTL8211x_LED_COUNT)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> + oldpage = phy_select_page(phydev, 0x7);
> + if (oldpage < 0)
> + goto err_restore_page;
> +
> + ret = __phy_write(phydev, RTL821x_EXT_PAGE_SELECT, 0x2c);
> + if (ret)
> + goto err_restore_page;

What is happening here? You select page 0x7, and then use
RTL821x_EXT_PAGE_SELECT to select 0x2c? Does this hardware have pages
within pages?

Andrew