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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Marek Behun <marek.behun@nic.cz>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-leds@vger.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Request for Comment: LED device naming for netdev LEDs
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2020 03:13:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200927011306.GE3889809@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200927024522.06df813f@nic.cz>

> So I will have
>   /sys/class/net/eth0/phydev/leds/eth0:green:activity
>                  |        |
>                  symlink  |
>                           |
>                         symlink
> 
> and I will also have
>   /sys/class/leds/eth0:green:activity
>                   |
>                   symlink

So this forces the name to be globally unique, not netns unique. So
you cannot use the interface name alone.

i don't think the name is actually too important. You are going to
find it via /sys/class/net/eth0/phydev/leds/eth0:green:activity so the
proposal of an incremental number works.

    Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-27  1:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-26 22:40 Request for Comment: LED device naming for netdev LEDs Marek Behun
2020-09-27  0:29 ` Andrew Lunn
2020-09-27  0:45   ` Marek Behun
2020-09-27  1:13     ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2020-09-27  0:52 ` Marek Behun
2020-09-28 13:04   ` Alexander Dahl
2020-09-28 15:52     ` Marek Behun
2020-09-28 17:10       ` Alexander Dahl
2020-09-28 17:22         ` Marek Behun
2020-11-25 10:59     ` Pavel Machek
2020-11-25 10:57   ` Pavel Machek

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