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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail•com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>, Vishal Thanki <vishalthanki@gmail•com>
Cc: ujhelyi.m@gmail•com, netdev@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: at803x: Add support to control PHY LEDs
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2016 09:59:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56EAE277.4050109@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160317145032.GB26019@lunn.ch>

On 17/03/16 07:50, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 02:59:07PM +0100, Vishal Thanki wrote:
>> The LEDs can be turned on and off by a sysfs interface
>> now. Write 0 to "led_enable" file to turn off the LEDs
>> and write 1 to turn on. The support is experimental
>> and can be enabled by kernel configuration option.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Vishal Thanki <vishalthanki@gmail•com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/phy/Kconfig  |  7 +++++
>>  drivers/net/phy/at803x.c | 71 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> Hi Vishal
> 
> This solution seems specific to the at803. You should be thinking of a
> generic solution that all PHYs can use. eg add a new callback function
> to phy_driver, and put the sysfs handling code in phylib.

Indeed, maybe we should be considering using the existing LEDS subsystem
(drivers/leds/*) to expose the PHY LEDs to user-space in a standard way?
-- 
Florian

  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-17 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-17 13:59 [PATCH] Add support to control PHY LEDs Vishal Thanki
2016-03-17 13:59 ` [PATCH] net: phy: at803x: " Vishal Thanki
2016-03-17 14:50   ` Andrew Lunn
2016-03-17 16:59     ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2016-03-17 17:32       ` Vishal Thanki
2016-03-17 17:51         ` Andrew Lunn
2016-03-17 18:07           ` Vishal Thanki
2016-03-21 17:36             ` Vishal Thanki
2016-03-21 18:13               ` Andrew Lunn
2016-03-17 14:54 ` [PATCH] " Andrew Lunn

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