linux-kernel - Re: [net-next PATCH 01/11] net: dsa: qca8k: add LEDs basic support

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Date:   Wed, 8 Mar 2023 02:07:06 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Gregory Clement <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>,
        Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth@...il.com>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>,
        linux-leds@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 01/11] net: dsa: qca8k: add LEDs basic support

> Just checked them, interesting concept, guess we can think of something
> also for the interval setting. That would effectively make all the
> setting of the trigger set. Just my concern is that they may be too much
> specific to netdev trigger and may be problematic for other kind of hw
> control. (one main argument that was made for this feature was that some
> stuff were too much specific and actually not that generic)

I deliberately made this API return a struct device, not a struct
net_device. That should keep it generic. The LED could then be
attached to an disk device, an mtd device, or a tty device, each of
which have an ledtrig-*.c file.

      Andrew