Re: [PATCH] leds: trigger: netdev: Check offload ability on interface up

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Nice use of udev. I had not thought about using it for this.

Is there some other way to configure the netdev-triggered PHY LEDs ?
I still feel the udev rule is somewhat brittle and fragile, and also not
available early enough for default PHY LED configuration, i.e. the LEDs are
not blinking when I use e.g. ip=/nfsroot= when booting from NFS root until
the userspace started, which is not nice. The only alternative I can imagine
is default configuration in DT, which was already rejected a few years ago.

Device tree is the only early way i can think of, especially for NFS
root.

What has clearly been rejected is each vendor having their own DT
binding. But i think we might have more success with one generic
binding for all MAC/PHY LEDs.

The way i was thinking about it, was to describe the label on the
front panel. That is hardware you are describing, so fits DT.

We are clearly in the grey area for DT, so i can understand some push
back on this from the DT Maintainers.

	Andrew