On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 11:57:00AM -0800, Tim Harvey wrote: > On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 5:11 AM Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Andrew, > > > > > > I completely agree with you but I haven't seen how that can be done > > > yet. What support exists for a PHY driver to expose their LED > > > configuration to be used that way? Can you point me to an example? > > > > Nobody has actually worked on this long enough to get code merged. e.g. > > https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20201004095852.GB1104@bug/T/ > > https://lists.archive.carbon60.com/linux/kernel/3396223 > > > > This is probably the last attempt, which was not too far away from getting merged: > > https://patches.linaro.org/project/linux-leds/cover/20220503151633.18760-1-ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx/ > > > > I seem to NACK a patch like yours every couple of months. If all that > > wasted time was actually spent on a common framework, this would of > > been solved years ago. > > > > How important is it to you to control these LEDs? Enough to finish > > this code and get it merged? > > > > Andrew, > > Thanks for the links - the most recent attempt does look promising. > For whatever reason I don't have that series in my mail history so > it's not clear how I can respond to it. apt-get install b4 > Ansuel, are you planning on posting a v7 of 'Adds support for PHY LEDs > with offload triggers' [1]? > > I'm not all that familiar with netdev led triggers. Is there a way to > configure the default offload blink mode via dt with your series? I > didn't quite follow how the offload function/blink-mode gets set. The idea is that the PHY LEDs are just LEDs in the Linux LED framework. So read Documentation/devicetree/bindings/leds/common.yaml. The PHY should make use of these standard DT properties, including linux,default-trigger. Andrew
