netdev - Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/5] dt-bindings: support Ethernet devices as LED triggers

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 5 May 2022 16:21:33 +0200
From:   Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
To:     Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
Cc:     Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>,
        Jacek Anaszewski <jacek.anaszewski@...il.com>,
        devicetree@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-leds@...r.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        bcm-kernel-feedback-list@...adcom.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        vivien.didelot@...il.com, Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
        Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/5] dt-bindings: support Ethernet devices as LED
 triggers

On 5.05.2022 16:02, Ansuel Smith wrote:
> On Thu, May 05, 2022 at 03:55:07PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
>> From: Rafał Miłecki <rafal@...ecki.pl>
>>
>> Some LEDs are designed to represent a state of another device. That may
>> be USB port, Ethernet interface, CPU, hard drive and more.
>>
>> We already have support for LEDs that are designed to indicate USB port
>> (e.g. light on when USB device gets connected). There is DT binding for
>> that and Linux implementation in USB trigger.
>>
>> This patchset adds support for describing LEDs that should react to
>> Ethernet interface status. That is commonly used in routers. They often
>> have LED to display state and activity of selected physical port. It's
>> also common to have multiple LEDs, each reacting to a specific link
>> speed.
>>
> 
> I notice this is specific to ethernet speed... I wonder if we should
> expand this also to other thing like duplex state or even rx/tx.

I didn't see any router with separated Rx/Tx LEDs, but it still sounds
like a valid case.

We could add flags for that in proposed field like:
trigger-sources = <&port (SPEED_1000 | LINK | TX)>;

Or add separated field for non-speed flags like:
trigger-sources = <&port SPEED_1000 (LINK | TX)>;

Let's see what DT experts say about it.