On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 09:19:13PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > Yes, can you point me to the discussion? > > It has gone through many cycles :-( > > The linux-led list is probably the better archive to look through, it > is a lot lower volume than netdev. > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-leds/msg18652.html > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-leds/msg18527.html > > Thanks for the links. > > I post this as RFC for this exact reason... I read somehwere that there > > was a discussion on how to implementd leds for switch but never ever > > found it. > > Most of the discussion so far has been about PHY LEDs, where the PHY > driver controls the LEDs. However some Ethernet switches also have LED > controls, which are not part of the PHY. And then there are some MAC > drivers which control the PHY in firmware, and have firmware calls for > controlling the LEDs. We need a generic solution which scales across > all this. And it needs to work without DT, or at least, not block ACPI > being added later. > > But progress is slow. I hope that the PHY use case will drive things > forward, get the ABI defined. We can then scale it out to include > switches, maybe with a bit of code refactoring. > > Andrew Wow... What a mess. Tell me if I'm wrong but it seems progress is stuck. I can see the api proposal patch had no review from June. Should I put a message there to try to move things up?
