From: Josua Mayer <josua@solid-run.com>
To: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] net: sfp: support assigning status LEDs to SFP connectors
Date: Wed, 18 May 2022 10:42:22 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9bf6238-b777-75d7-5c74-86dec47ee330@solid-run.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220511154838.7ia7up6uys55nc2t@skbuf>
Hi Ioana,
Am 11.05.22 um 18:48 schrieb Ioana Ciornei:
> On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:56:06AM +0300, Josua Mayer wrote:
>>
>
> Hi Josua,
>
>>>> On the Layerscape platform in particular these devices are created dynamically
>>>> by the networkign coprocessor, which supports complex functions such as
>>>> creating one network interface that spans multiple ports.
>
> Are you sure that by multiple ports you do not mean multiple SerDes
> lanes? Otherwise, I do not understand what you are referring to.
It is very likely that I meant serdes lanes.
However the concept of my question only makes sense when their
assignment to netdevs remains fixed.
>
> The dpaa2-eth driver will register one netdev for each DPNI object
> (network interface) and will control/configure one DPMAC (MAC).
> There is a 1-1 relationship between these two.
That is good, so the dpmac nodes in device-tree are good objects for
linking LEDs to.
>
> Ioana
Thank you for the clarification!
sincerely
Josua Mayer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-18 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-09 12:29 [PATCH RFC] net: sfp: support assigning status LEDs to SFP connectors Josua Mayer
2022-05-09 12:49 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-05-10 8:56 ` Josua Mayer
2022-05-10 12:13 ` Andrew Lunn
2022-05-11 10:26 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-05-11 14:48 ` Ioana Ciornei
2022-05-11 10:12 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-05-11 15:48 ` Ioana Ciornei
2022-05-18 7:42 ` Josua Mayer [this message]
2022-05-09 15:54 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-05-10 9:44 ` Josua Mayer
2022-05-11 10:21 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-05-11 13:22 ` Ioana Ciornei
2022-05-11 13:39 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2022-06-01 10:18 ` Josua Mayer
2022-06-01 10:52 ` Russell King (Oracle)
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