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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn•ch>
To: Michael Tretter <m.tretter@pengutronix•de>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, devicetree@vger•kernel.org,
	kernel@pengutronix•de, robh+dt@kernel•org, hkallweit1@gmail•com,
	dmurphy@ti•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: phy: dp83867: Configure LED modes via device tree
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2021 22:19:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YFUVcLCzONhPmeh8@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210319155710.2793637-1-m.tretter@pengutronix.de>

On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 04:57:08PM +0100, Michael Tretter wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> The dp83867 has 4 LED pins, which can be multiplexed with different functions
> of the phy.
> 
> This series adds a device tree binding to describe the multiplexing of the
> functions to the LEDs and implements the binding for the dp83867 phy.
> 
> I found existing bindings for configuring the LED modes for other phys:
> 
> In Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/micrel.txt, the binding is not
> flexible enough for the use case in the dp83867, because there is a value for
> each LED configuration, which would be a lot of values for the dp83867.
> 
> In Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mscc-phy-vsc8532.txt, there is a
> separate property for each LED, which would work, but I found rather
> unintuitive compared to how clock bindings etc. work.
> 
> The new binding defines two properties: one for the led names and another
> property for the modes of the LEDs with defined values in the same order.
> Currently, the binding is specific to the dp83867, but I guess that the
> binding could be made more generic and used for other phys, too.

There is some work going on to manage PHY LEDs just like other LEDs in
Linux, using /sys/class/leds.

Please try to help out with that work, rather than adding yet another
DT binding.

   Andrew

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-03-19 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-19 15:57 [PATCH 0/2] net: phy: dp83867: Configure LED modes via device tree Michael Tretter
2021-03-19 15:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: dp83867: Add binding for LED mode configuration Michael Tretter
2021-03-19 21:49   ` Rob Herring
2021-03-19 15:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: phy: dp83867: add support for changing LED modes Michael Tretter
2021-03-19 16:14   ` Michael Tretter
2021-03-19 18:14   ` kernel test robot
2021-03-20  0:46   ` kernel test robot
2021-03-20  3:41   ` kernel test robot
2021-03-19 21:19 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2021-03-22  7:39   ` [PATCH 0/2] net: phy: dp83867: Configure LED modes via device tree Michael Tretter

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