From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Marek Behún" <marek.behun@nic.cz>
Cc: linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, jacek.anaszewski@gmail.com,
"Dan Murphy" <dmurphy@ti.com>,
"Ondřej Jirman" <megous@megous.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, "Russell King" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
"Thomas Petazzoni" <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>,
"Gregory Clement" <gregory.clement@bootlin.com>,
"Andrew Lunn" <andrew@lunn.ch>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC leds + net-next v2 0/1] Add support for LEDs on Marvell PHYs
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:38:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200724223844.GA24384@amd> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200724151233.35d799e8@dellmb.labs.office.nic.cz>
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On Fri 2020-07-24 15:12:33, Marek Behún wrote:
> On Fri, 24 Jul 2020 12:29:01 +0200
> Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>
> > In future, would you expect having software "1000/100/10/nolink"
> > triggers I could activate on my scrollock LED (or on GPIO controlled
> > LEDs) to indicate network activity?
>
> Look at drivers/net/phy/phy_led_triggers.c, something like that could
> be actually implemented there.
>
> Some of the modes are useful, like the "1000/100/10/nolink". But some
> of them are pretty weird, and I don't think anyone actually uses it
> ("1000-10/else", which is on if the device is linked at 1000mbps ar
> 10mbps, and else off? who would sacrifies a LED for this?).
>
> I actually wanted to talk about the phy_led_triggers.c code. It
> registers several trigger for each PHY, with the name in form:
> phy-device-name:mode
> where
> phy-device-name is derived from OF
> - sometimes it is in the form
> d0032004.mdio-mii:01
> - but sometimes in the form of whole OF path followed by ":" and
> the PHY address:
> /soc/internal-regs@d0000000/mdio@32004/switch0@10/mdio:08
> mode is "link", "1Gbps", "100Mbps", "10Mbps" and so on"
>
> So I have a GPIO LED, and I can set it to sw trigger so that it is on
> when a specific PHY is linked on 1Gbps.
>
> The problem is that on Turris Mox I can connect up to three 8-port
> switches, which yields in 25 network PHYs overall. So reading the
> trigger file results in 4290 bytes (look at attachment cat_trigger.txt).
> I think the phy_led_triggers should have gone this way of having just
> one trigger (like netdev has), and specifying phy device via and mode
> via another file.
I agree with you. This is ... not pretty ... and it would be nice to
get it fixed.
Best regards,
Pavel
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-24 22:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-23 18:13 [PATCH RFC leds + net-next v2 0/1] Add support for LEDs on Marvell PHYs Marek Behún
2020-07-23 18:13 ` [PATCH RFC leds + net-next v2 1/1] net: phy: marvell: add support for PHY LEDs via LED class Marek Behún
2020-07-23 21:35 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-07-23 21:44 ` Pavel Machek
2020-07-23 21:46 ` Marek Behun
2020-07-23 22:53 ` Marek Behun
2020-07-24 10:24 ` Pavel Machek
2020-07-24 13:11 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-07-25 9:41 ` Pavel Machek
2020-07-24 10:29 ` [PATCH RFC leds + net-next v2 0/1] Add support for LEDs on Marvell PHYs Pavel Machek
2020-07-24 13:12 ` Marek Behún
2020-07-24 13:18 ` Marek Behún
2020-07-24 22:38 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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