netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Support LED control

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Message-ID: <4bd8642c-988f-4b99-944a-da573d0ef2c3@lunn.ch>
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2023 17:45:31 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
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>,
	Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>,
	Tim Harvey <tharvey@...eworks.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: Support LED control

On Sun, Nov 26, 2023 at 12:46:03AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 5:13 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch> wrote:
> 
> > What i would really like to see happen is that the DSA core handles
> > the registration of the LEDs, similar to how phylib does. The DT
> > binding should be identical for all DSA devices, so there is no need
> > for each driver to do its own parsing.
> >
> > There are some WIP patches at
> >
> > https://github.com/lunn/linux.git leds-offload-support-reduced-auto-netdev
> >
> > which implement this. Feel free to make use of them.
> 
> Oh it's quite a lot of patches, I really cannot drive that because there are
> so many things about them that I don't understand the thinking behind...
> But I like what I see!

O.K. Let me dust them off, rebase them on net-next and see what is
missing. You have some fibre things i don't have. I don't have a
machine with fibre so i cannot test that.

	Andrew