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From: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@gmail•com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
Cc: Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@waldekranz•com>,
	davem@davemloft•net, kuba@kernel•org, linux@armlinux•org.uk,
	kabel@kernel•org, hkallweit1@gmail•com, robh+dt@kernel•org,
	krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@linaro•org, conor+dt@kernel•org,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, devicetree@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] dt-bindings: net: marvell10g: Document LED polarity
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 15:22:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <657c8e53.050a0220.dd6f2.9aaf@mx.google.com> (raw)

> > +        properties:
> > +          marvell,polarity:
> > +            description: |
> > +              Electrical polarity and drive type for this LED. In the
> > +              active state, hardware may drive the pin either low or
> > +              high. In the inactive state, the pin can either be
> > +              driven to the opposite logic level, or be tristated.
> > +            $ref: /schemas/types.yaml#/definitions/string
> > +            enum:
> > +              - active-low
> > +              - active-high
> > +              - active-low-tristate
> > +              - active-high-tristate
> 
> Christian is working on adding a generic active-low property, which
> any PHY LED could use. The assumption being if the bool property is
> not present, it defaults to active-high.
> 

Hi, it was pointed out this series sorry for not noticing before.

> So we should consider, how popular are these two tristate values? Is
> this a Marvell only thing, or do other PHYs also have them? Do we want
> to make them part of the generic PHY led binding? Also, is an enum the
> correct representation? Maybe tristate should be another bool
> property? Hi/Low and tristate seem to be orthogonal, so maybe two
> properties would make it cleaner with respect to generic properties?

For parsing it would make it easier to have the thing split.

But on DT I feel an enum like it's done here might be more clear.

Assuming the property define the LED polarity, it would make sense
to have a single one instead of a sum of boolean.

The boolean idea might be problematic in the future for device that
devisates from what we expect.

Example: A device set the LED to active-high by default and we want a
way in DT to define active-low. With the boolean idea of having
"active-high" and assume active-low if not defined we would have to put
active-high in every PHY node (to reflect the default settings)

Having a property instead permits us to support more case.

Ideally on code side we would have an enum that map the string to the
different modes and we would pass to a .led_set_polarity the enum.
(or if we really want a bitmask)


If we feel tristate is special enough we can consider leaving that
specific to marvell (something like marvell,led-tristate)

But if we notice it's more generic then we will have to keep
compatibility for both.

> 
> Please work with Christian on this.

Think since the current idea is to support this in the LED api with set
polarity either the 2 series needs to be merged or the polarity part
needs to be detached and submitted later until we sort the generic way
to set it?

-- 
	Ansuel

             reply	other threads:[~2023-12-15 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-15 14:22 Christian Marangi [this message]
2023-12-16 12:25 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] dt-bindings: net: marvell10g: Document LED polarity Andrew Lunn
2023-12-19 10:13 ` Christian Marangi
2023-12-19 10:58   ` Marek Behún
2023-12-19 19:43     ` Christian Marangi
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2023-12-14 20:14 [PATCH net-next 0/4] net: phy: marvell10g: Firmware loading and LED support for 88X3310 Tobias Waldekranz
2023-12-14 20:14 ` [PATCH net-next 4/4] dt-bindings: net: marvell10g: Document LED polarity Tobias Waldekranz
2023-12-15  8:47   ` Krzysztof Kozlowski
2023-12-15 11:19   ` Andrew Lunn

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