netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: skip LED triggers on PHYs on SFP modules

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Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:31:23 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
 Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, "David S. Miller"
 <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni
 <pabeni@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: phy: skip LED triggers on PHYs on SFP modules

On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:05:35 +0000 Daniel Golle wrote:
> Calling led_trigger_register() when attaching a PHY located on an SFP
> module potentially (and practically) leads into a deadlock.
> Fix this by not calling led_trigger_register() for PHYs localted on SFP
> modules as such modules actually never got any LEDs.

Any suggestion of a Fixes tag?
Looks like the triggers were added a while back, are we only seeing it
now because we started exercising the code more?