netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: phy: at803x: Add support to control PHY LEDs

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Date:	Thu, 17 Mar 2016 18:32:55 +0100
From:	Vishal Thanki <vishalthanki@...il.com>
To:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Matus Ujhelyi <ujhelyi.m@...il.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: at803x: Add support to control PHY LEDs

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 5:59 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com> wrote:
> 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@...il.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?
> --

I agree with the idea of making a generic callback in phy_driver so
that other PHYs
can use it. However I think these LEDs are tightly coupled with PHYs and it
would not make much sense to expose them via LED subsystem as they
cannot be controlled individually IMHO.

> Florian