Re: [PATCH RFC] net: sfp: support assigning status LEDs to SFP connectors

From: Josua Mayer <josua@solid-run.com>
To: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] net: sfp: support assigning status LEDs to SFP connectors
Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 10:42:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9bf6238-b777-75d7-5c74-86dec47ee330@solid-run.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220511154838.7ia7up6uys55nc2t@skbuf>

Hi Ioana,

Am 11.05.22 um 18:48 schrieb Ioana Ciornei:
> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:56:06AM +0300, Josua Mayer wrote:
>>
> 
> Hi Josua,
> 
>>>> On the Layerscape platform in particular these devices are created dynamically
>>>> by the networkign coprocessor, which supports complex functions such as
>>>> creating one network interface that spans multiple ports.
> 
> Are you sure that by multiple ports you do not mean multiple SerDes
> lanes? Otherwise, I do not understand what you are referring to.
It is very likely that I meant serdes lanes.
However the concept of my question only makes sense when their 
assignment to netdevs remains fixed.
> 
> The dpaa2-eth driver will register one netdev for each DPNI object
> (network interface) and will control/configure one DPMAC (MAC).
> There is a 1-1 relationship between these two.
That is good, so the dpmac nodes in device-tree are good objects for 
linking LEDs to.
> 
> Ioana

Thank you for the clarification!

sincerely
Josua Mayer