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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: "Marek Behún" <kabel@kernel.org>
Cc: Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@gmail.com>,
	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
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 3/8] leds: trigger: netdev: drop NETDEV_LED_MODE_LINKUP from mode
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 21:53:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YYrfu8EIPMsbgL2T@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211109040257.29f42aa1@thinkpad>

On Tue, Nov 09, 2021 at 04:02:57AM +0100, Marek Behún wrote:
> On Tue,  9 Nov 2021 03:26:03 +0100
> Ansuel Smith <ansuelsmth@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Drop NETDEV_LED_MODE_LINKUP from mode list and convert to a simple bool
> > that will be true or false based on the carrier link. No functional
> > change intended.
> 
> The last time I tried this, I did it for all the fields that are now in
> the bitmap, and I was told that the bitmap guarantees atomic access, so
> it should be used...
> 
> But why do you needs this? I guess I will see in another patch.

I agree with Marek here. The commit message says what you have done,
which is not very useful, i can read the patch. What it should include
is why you have made this change. The why is very important in the
commit message.

       Andrew

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-09 20:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ 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 20:25   ` kernel test robot
2021-11-09 20:34   ` Andrew Lunn
2021-11-09 20:40     ` Ansuel Smith
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 [this message]
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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