Re: [net-next PATCH v7 13/16] ARM: dts: qcom: ipq8064-rb3011: Add Switch LED for each port

From: Krzysztof Kozlowski
Date: Wed Apr 19 2023 - 14:16:02 EST


On 19/04/2023 16:38, Christian Marangi wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 02:53:45PM +0200, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
>> On 17/04/2023 17:17, Christian Marangi wrote:
>>> Add Switch LED for each port for MikroTik RB3011UiAS-RM.
>>>
>>> MikroTik RB3011UiAS-RM is a 10 port device with 2 qca8337 switch chips
>>> connected.
>>>
>>> It was discovered that in the hardware design all 3 Switch LED trace of
>>> the related port is connected to the same LED. This was discovered by
>>> setting to 'always on' the related led in the switch regs and noticing
>>> that all 3 LED for the specific port (for example for port 1) cause the
>>> connected LED for port 1 to turn on. As an extra test we tried enabling
>>> 2 different LED for the port resulting in the LED turned off only if
>>> every led in the reg was off.
>>>
>>> Aside from this funny and strange hardware implementation, the device
>>> itself have one green LED for each port, resulting in 10 green LED one
>>> for each of the 10 supported port.
>>>
>>> Cc: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@xxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@xxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> arch/arm/boot/dts/qcom-ipq8064-rb3011.dts | 120 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>>
>> Please do not send the DTS patches to the net-next, but to the Qualcomm
>> SoC maintainers. The DTS must not be mixed with driver code.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> sorry for the mess, it was asked to give an user of the LED feature for
> qca8k so I was a bit confused on where to include it and at the end I
> decided to put it in this series.
>
> What was the correct way? 2 different series and reference the DT one in
> the net-next? (or not targetting net-next at all?)

Send a separate patchset and provide a lore URL to it in the bindings
(or vice versa).

Best regards,
Krzysztof