Re: [RFC PATCH v3 6/8] leds: trigger: add hardware-phy-activity trigger

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Tue Nov 09 2021 - 16:09:49 EST


> > +/* Expose sysfs for every blink to be configurable from userspace */
> > +DEFINE_OFFLOAD_TRIGGER(blink_tx, BLINK_TX);
> > +DEFINE_OFFLOAD_TRIGGER(blink_rx, BLINK_RX);
> > +DEFINE_OFFLOAD_TRIGGER(keep_link_10m, KEEP_LINK_10M);
> > +DEFINE_OFFLOAD_TRIGGER(keep_link_100m, KEEP_LINK_100M);
> > +DEFINE_OFFLOAD_TRIGGER(keep_link_1000m, KEEP_LINK_1000M);

You might get warnings about CamelCase, but i suggest keep_link_10M,
keep_link_100M and keep_link_1000M. These are megabits, not millibits.

> > +DEFINE_OFFLOAD_TRIGGER(keep_half_duplex, KEEP_HALF_DUPLEX);
> > +DEFINE_OFFLOAD_TRIGGER(keep_full_duplex, KEEP_FULL_DUPLEX);

What does keep mean in this context?

> > +DEFINE_OFFLOAD_TRIGGER(option_linkup_over, OPTION_LINKUP_OVER);
> > +DEFINE_OFFLOAD_TRIGGER(option_power_on_reset, OPTION_POWER_ON_RESET);
> > +DEFINE_OFFLOAD_TRIGGER(option_blink_2hz, OPTION_BLINK_2HZ);
> > +DEFINE_OFFLOAD_TRIGGER(option_blink_4hz, OPTION_BLINK_4HZ);
> > +DEFINE_OFFLOAD_TRIGGER(option_blink_8hz, OPTION_BLINK_8HZ);
>
> This is very strange. Is option_blink_2hz a trigger on itself? Or just
> an option for another trigger? It seems that it is an option, so that I
> can set something like
> blink_tx,option_blink_2hz
> and the LED will blink on tx activity with frequency 2 Hz... If that is
> so, I think you are misnaming your macros or something, since you are
> defining option_blink_2hz as a trigger with
> DEFINE_OFFLOAD_TRIGGER

Yes, i already said this needs handling differently. The 2Hz, 4Hz and
8Hz naturally fit the delay_on, delay_of sysfs attributes.

Andrew