netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 0/8] DSA LED infrastructure, mv88e6xxx and QCA8K

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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:43:36 +0200
From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 0/8] DSA LED infrastructure, mv88e6xxx and
 QCA8K

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 04:13:00PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> O.K, i need to think about this.
> 
> What is not obvious to me at the moment is how we glue the bits
> together. I don't want each DSA driver having to parse the DSA part of
> the DT representation. So the DSA core needs to call into this library
> while parsing the DT to create the LEDs. We also need an ops structure
> in the DSA driver which this library can use. We then need to
> associate the ops structure the driver has with the LEDs the DSA core
> creates in the library. Maybe we can use ds->dev as a cookie.
> 
> Before i get too deep into code, i will post the basic API idea for a
> quick review.

What is the DSA portion of the DT representation? I see "leds" goes
under the generic ethernet-controller.yaml.