From: Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: "Vivien Didelot" <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
"Florian Fainelli" <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
"Vladimir Oltean" <olteanv@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Rob Herring" <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
"Jonathan Corbet" <corbet@lwn.net>, "Pavel Machek" <pavel@ucw.cz>,
"John Crispin" <john@phrozen.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, "Marek Behún" <kabel@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/8] leds: add support for hardware driven LEDs
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 21:40:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YYrc1UfhVLEO/Nth@Ansuel-xps.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YYrbT6pMGXqA2EVn@lunn.ch>
On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 09:34:23PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 03:26:01AM +0100, Ansuel Smith wrote:
> > Some LEDs can be driven by hardware (for example a LED connected to
> > an ethernet PHY or an ethernet switch can be configured to blink on
> > activity on the network, which in software is done by the netdev trigger).
> >
> > To do such offloading, LED driver must support this and a supported
> > trigger must be used.
> >
> > LED driver should declare the correct blink_mode supported and should set
> > the blink_mode parameter to one of HARDWARE_CONTROLLED or
> > SOFTWARE_HARDWARE_CONTROLLED.
> > The trigger will check this option and fail to activate if the blink_mode
> > is not supported. By default if a LED driver doesn't declare blink_mode,
> > SOFTWARE_CONTROLLED is assumed.
> >
> > The LED must implement 3 main API:
> > - trigger_offload_status(): This asks the LED driver if offload mode is
> > enabled or not.
> > Triggers will check if the offload mode is supported and will be
> > activated accordingly. If the trigger can't run in software mode,
> > return -EOPNOTSUPP as the blinking can't be simulated by software.
>
> I don't understand this last part. The LED controller is not
> implementing software mode, other than providing a method to manually
> turn the LED on and off. And there is a well defined call for that. If
> that call is a NULL, it is clear it is not implemented. There is no
> need to ask the driver.
>
> Andrew
You are right I have to remove the last part as it doesn't make sense.
We already use blink_mode. Will remove in v4.
--
Ansuel
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-09 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-09 2:26 [RFC PATCH v3 0/8] Adds support for PHY LEDs with offload triggers Ansuel Smith
2021-11-09 2:26 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/8] leds: add support for hardware driven LEDs Ansuel Smith
2021-11-09 6:16 ` Randy Dunlap
2021-11-09 20:34 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-09 20:40 ` Ansuel Smith [this message]
2021-11-09 2:26 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/8] leds: add function to configure hardware controlled LED Ansuel Smith
2021-11-09 3:01 ` Marek Behún
2021-11-09 14:22 ` Ansuel Smith
2021-11-09 20:49 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-10 19:51 ` Ansuel Smith
2021-11-10 22:24 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-09 22:18 ` Marek Behún
2021-11-09 6:12 ` Randy Dunlap
2021-11-09 2:26 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/8] leds: trigger: netdev: drop NETDEV_LED_MODE_LINKUP from mode Ansuel Smith
2021-11-09 3:02 ` Marek Behún
2021-11-09 14:24 ` Ansuel Smith
2021-11-09 20:53 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-09 2:26 ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/8] leds: trigger: netdev: rename and expose NETDEV trigger enum modes Ansuel Smith
2021-11-09 20:58 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-10 19:57 ` Ansuel Smith
2021-11-10 22:29 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-09 2:26 ` [RFC PATCH v3 5/8] leds: trigger: netdev: add hardware control support Ansuel Smith
2021-11-09 3:12 ` Marek Behún
2021-11-09 15:02 ` Ansuel Smith
2021-11-09 2:26 ` [RFC PATCH v3 6/8] leds: trigger: add hardware-phy-activity trigger Ansuel Smith
2021-11-09 3:25 ` Marek Behún
2021-11-09 21:09 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-10 20:04 ` Ansuel Smith
2021-11-10 22:32 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-09 6:02 ` Randy Dunlap
2021-11-09 15:06 ` Ansuel Smith
2021-11-09 21:17 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-09 21:28 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-09 2:26 ` [RFC PATCH v3 7/8] net: dsa: qca8k: add LEDs support Ansuel Smith
2021-11-09 6:03 ` Randy Dunlap
2021-11-09 21:22 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-09 2:26 ` [RFC PATCH v3 8/8] dt-bindings: net: dsa: qca8k: add LEDs definition example Ansuel Smith
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