Re: [PATCH leds v2 00/10] Add support for offloading netdev trigger to HW + example implementation for Turris Omnia

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 07:53:17PM +0100, Lad, Prabhakar wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> wrote:
> >
> > > > Marek Behún (10):
> > > >   leds: trigger: netdev: don't explicitly zero kzalloced data
> > > >   leds: trigger: add API for HW offloading of triggers
> > > >   leds: trigger: netdev: move trigger data structure to global include
> > > >     dir
> > > >   leds: trigger: netdev: support HW offloading
> > > >   leds: trigger: netdev: change spinlock to mutex
> > > >   leds: core: inform trigger that it's deactivation is due to LED
> > > >     removal
> > > >   leds: turris-omnia: refactor sw mode setting code into separate
> > > >     function
> > > >   leds: turris-omnia: refactor brightness setting function
> > > >   leds: turris-omnia: initialize each multicolor LED to white color
> > > >   leds: turris-omnia: support offloading netdev trigger for WAN LED
> > > >
> > > Do you plan to progress with the above series anytime soon? If not I
> > > want to give this patch [0] again a respin.
> >
> > What features are you missing from the current kernel code, which this
> > series adds?
> >
> I’m working on a platform that uses the VSC8541 PHY. On this platform,
> LED0 and LED1 are connected to the external connector, and LED1 is
> also connected to the Ethernet switch to indicate the PHY link status.
> As a result, whenever there is link activity, the PHY link status
> signal to the switch toggles, causing the switch to incorrectly detect
> the link as going up and down.

So you think the current /sys/class/leds code is not sufficient. You
can use it from udev etc, to make the LED indicate link, but then
userspace could change it to something else. I _think_ only root can
use /sys/class/leds to change the function of the LED, so it is not
too bad as is? Or do you really want to make the configuration read
only?

	Andrew