From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Matthias Schiffer <matthias.schiffer@ew.tq-group.com>
Cc: "Marek Behún" <marek.behun@nic.cz>, "Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-leds@vger.kernel.org,
"Dan Murphy" <dmurphy@ti.com>,
"Ondřej Jirman" <megous@megous.com>,
"Russell King" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next + leds v2 6/7] net: phy: marvell: add support for LEDs controlled by Marvell PHYs
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 14:42:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200911124258.GB3390477@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d4dd05f2597c66fb429580095eed91c2b3be76a.camel@ew.tq-group.com>
> - Do all PHYs support manual setting of the LED level, or are the PHYs
> that can only work with HW triggers?
There are PHYs with do not have simple on/off.
> - Is setting PHY registers always efficiently possible, or should SW
> triggers be avoided in certain cases? I'm thinking about setups like
> mdio-gpio. I guess this can only become an issue for triggers that
> blink.
There are uses cases where not using software frequently writing
registers would be good. PTP time stamping is one, where the extra
jitter can reduce the accuracy of the clock.
I also think activity blinking in software is unlikely to be
accepted. Nothing extra is allowed in the hot path, when you can be
dealing with a million or more packets per second.
So i would say limit software fallback to link and speed, and don't
assume that is even possible depending on the hardware.
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-11 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-09 16:25 [PATCH net-next + leds v2 0/7] PLEASE REVIEW: Add support for LEDs on Marvell PHYs Marek Behún
2020-09-09 16:25 ` [PATCH net-next + leds v2 1/7] dt-bindings: leds: document binding for HW controlled LEDs Marek Behún
2020-09-09 18:27 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-09 18:33 ` Marek Behún
2020-09-09 20:59 ` Rob Herring
2020-09-09 21:07 ` Marek Behun
2020-09-09 21:31 ` Rob Herring
2020-09-09 21:43 ` Marek Behun
2020-09-09 20:56 ` Rob Herring
2020-09-09 21:15 ` Rob Herring
2020-09-09 21:58 ` Marek Behun
2020-09-09 16:25 ` [PATCH net-next + leds v2 2/7] leds: add generic API for LEDs that can be controlled by hardware Marek Behún
2020-09-09 18:20 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-09-09 18:31 ` Marek Behún
2020-09-09 18:43 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-09-09 20:48 ` Pavel Machek
2020-09-09 21:20 ` Marek Behun
2020-09-09 21:40 ` Pavel Machek
2020-09-09 22:15 ` Marek Behun
2020-09-09 22:20 ` Pavel Machek
2020-09-09 16:25 ` [PATCH net-next + leds v2 3/7] net: phy: add simple incrementing phyindex member to phy_device struct Marek Behún
2020-09-10 12:20 ` Pavel Machek
2020-09-09 16:25 ` [PATCH net-next + leds v2 4/7] dt-bindings: net: ethernet-phy: add description for PHY LEDs Marek Behún
2020-09-09 16:25 ` [PATCH net-next + leds v2 5/7] net: phy: add support for LEDs controlled by ethernet PHY chips Marek Behún
2020-09-10 12:22 ` Pavel Machek
2020-09-09 16:25 ` [PATCH net-next + leds v2 6/7] net: phy: marvell: add support for LEDs controlled by Marvell PHYs Marek Behún
2020-09-10 12:23 ` Pavel Machek
2020-09-10 13:15 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-10 14:15 ` Marek Behún
2020-09-10 14:46 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-10 15:00 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-11 7:12 ` Matthias Schiffer
2020-09-11 12:42 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2020-09-11 12:52 ` Marek Behún
2020-09-10 20:23 ` Pavel Machek
2020-09-10 20:31 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-10 20:39 ` Pavel Machek
2020-09-10 20:41 ` Marek Behun
2020-09-10 18:24 ` Pavel Machek
2020-09-10 18:31 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-10 18:34 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-09-10 20:31 ` Marek Behun
2020-09-10 21:44 ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2020-09-11 12:53 ` Marek Behún
2020-09-09 16:25 ` [PATCH net-next + mvebu v2 7/7] arm64: dts: armada-3720-turris-mox: add nodes for ethernet PHY LEDs Marek Behún
2020-09-10 12:25 ` Pavel Machek
2020-09-09 21:42 ` [PATCH net-next + leds v2 0/7] PLEASE REVIEW: Add support for LEDs on Marvell PHYs Andrew Lunn
2020-09-09 22:11 ` Marek Behun
2020-09-09 22:39 ` Andrew Lunn
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