On Thu, Dec 21, 2023 at 06:42:46PM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote: > The main question is - how to represent a remote consumer (Powered > Device)? It looks for me like having a dummy regulator consumer for each > (PSE PI) withing the PSE framework is the simplest thing to do. User > should enable this dummy consumer from user space by using already > existing interface in case of PoDL - ETHTOOL_A_PODL_PSE_ADMIN_CONTROL > or new interface for Clause 33 PSE. That's not even a dummy consumer - the physical power output from the system is a real, physical thing that we can point at just as much as any other physical device. Some kind of library/helper thing that connects up with other interfaces for controlling network ports like you suggest above does seem like a good fit here.
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