netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v6 06/16] net: phy: phy_device: Call into the PHY driver to set LED brightness

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Message-ID: <60d5bad7-e7c1-4ffe-be6c-5d92e482b1ba@lunn.ch>
Date:   Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:43:29 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:     Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>,
        Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        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>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
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        Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v6 06/16] net: phy: phy_device: Call into the
 PHY driver to set LED brightness

> Humm just thought of something else, is it OK for led_brightness_set and
> led_blink_set to call into functions that might require sleeping (MDIO, I2C,
> SPI, etc.)?

Hi Florian

That is fine. The LED class is similar to GPIOs. There is a can sleep
version, and an atomic version. For phylib we are using the can sleep
version. The LED core then hides the differences from the users.

    Andrew