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From: Kai-Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: hkallweit1@gmail.com, linux@armlinux.org.uk,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: phy: marvell: Honor phy LED set by system firmware on a Dell hardware
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 12:01:35 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAAd53p7NjvzsBs2aWTP-3GMjoyefMmLB3ou+7fDcrNVfKwALHw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YelxMFOiqnfIVmyy@lunn.ch>

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 10:26 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 01:19:29PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> > BIOS on Dell Edge Gateway 3200 already makes its own phy LED setting, so
> > instead of setting another value, keep it untouched and restore the saved
> > value on system resume.
> >
> > Introduce config_led() callback in phy_driver() to make the implemtation
> > generic.
>
> I'm also wondering if we need to take a step back here and get the
> ACPI guys involved. I don't know much about ACPI, but shouldn't it
> provide a control method to configure the PHYs LEDs?
>
> We already have the basics for defining a PHY in ACPI. See:
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/firmware-guide/acpi/dsd/phy.html

These properties seem to come from device-tree.

>
> so you could extend this to include a method to configure the LEDs for
> a specific PHY.

How to add new properties? Is it required to add new properties to
both DT and ACPI?
Looks like many drivers use _DSD freely, but those properties are not
defined in ACPI spec...

Kai-Heng

>
>   Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-21  4:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-20  5:19 [PATCH v2] net: phy: marvell: Honor phy LED set by system firmware on a Dell hardware Kai-Heng Feng
2022-01-20  7:58 ` Heiner Kallweit
2022-01-20 11:40   ` Kai-Heng Feng
2022-01-20 13:46 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-01-21  3:54   ` Kai-Heng Feng
2022-01-21 13:04     ` Andrew Lunn
2022-01-21 14:04       ` Kai-Heng Feng
2022-01-21 15:05         ` Andrew Lunn
2022-01-21 13:10     ` Andrew Lunn
2022-01-21 14:06       ` Kai-Heng Feng
2022-01-21 15:08         ` Andrew Lunn
2022-01-21  7:49   ` Heiner Kallweit
2022-01-20 14:26 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-01-21  4:01   ` Kai-Heng Feng [this message]
2022-01-21 13:22     ` Andrew Lunn
2022-01-21 14:17       ` Kai-Heng Feng
2022-01-21 15:15         ` Andrew Lunn
2022-01-22 19:13           ` Heiner Kallweit
2022-01-22 21:18             ` Andrew Lunn
2022-02-14  5:40               ` Kai-Heng Feng
2022-02-15 20:27                 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-02-16  2:30                   ` Kai-Heng Feng
2022-02-16  7:39                     ` Andrew Lunn
2022-01-20 15:33 ` kernel test robot
2022-01-21  6:47 ` kernel test robot

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