Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: phy: dp83867: Configure LED modes via device tree

[Michael Tretter <m.tretter@pengutronix.de>]

On Fri, 19 Mar 2021 22:19:44 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 04:57:08PM +0100, Michael Tretter wrote:
> > The dp83867 has 4 LED pins, which can be multiplexed with different functions
> > of the phy.
> > 
> > This series adds a device tree binding to describe the multiplexing of the
> > functions to the LEDs and implements the binding for the dp83867 phy.
> > 
> > I found existing bindings for configuring the LED modes for other phys:
> > 
> > In Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/micrel.txt, the binding is not
> > flexible enough for the use case in the dp83867, because there is a value for
> > each LED configuration, which would be a lot of values for the dp83867.
> > 
> > In Documentation/devicetree/bindings/net/mscc-phy-vsc8532.txt, there is a
> > separate property for each LED, which would work, but I found rather
> > unintuitive compared to how clock bindings etc. work.
> > 
> > The new binding defines two properties: one for the led names and another
> > property for the modes of the LEDs with defined values in the same order.
> > Currently, the binding is specific to the dp83867, but I guess that the
> > binding could be made more generic and used for other phys, too.
> 
> There is some work going on to manage PHY LEDs just like other LEDs in
> Linux, using /sys/class/leds.
> 
> Please try to help out with that work, rather than adding yet another
> DT binding.

Oh, thanks. That's even better.

For reference: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20190813191147.19936-1-mka@chromium.org/

Michael